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[VIDEO] A New Videoclip Filmed in Japan for Alex Henry Foster
- Alex April 5, 2019 Press -
As published in Le Journal de Montréal / Le Journal de Québec
Surprise success during last fall music releases in Quebec, Your Favorite Enemies’ singer, Alex Henry Foster, releases a second music video off his solo album Windows in the Sky, this time for the song Shadows of Our Evening Tides.
“The weight of the world is love…” Filmed in Japan and featuring the words of famous American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Shadows of Our Evening Tides makes us travel to Tokyo.
The dreamy images of the Japanese megalopolis and its inhabitants are the canvas to what the artist describes as “the ineluctable pursuit of an everlasting happiness within the implacable context of a life hastily passing by.”
Shared online in November, the videoclip for the song Summertime Departures, now has, for its part, close to 500,000 views on YouTube.
Scheduled on the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal’s program, on July 5, at the Club Soda, Alex Henry Foster took the music world by surprise, last November, when his album made an entrance at the top of the sales in Quebec, ahead of the new releases of Muse, Imagine Dragons, and Marie-Mai.
CÉDRIC BÉLANGER
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French Animators, Kanye West and Knee-jerk Reactions: Why “All Of The Lights” Is Not A Case Of Plagiarism
By Larry McCloskey
When the video for Kanye West’s “All Of The Lights” hit the Internet it was almost guaranteed to cause controversy. The man never fails to achieve at least some outcry in everything he does. Within moments of it’s release, bloggers were at their keyboards claiming foul play on the part of the video’s director Hype Williams. The charge laid at his feet was one of plagiarism. The term seems to be in vogue as it was only recently that Rihanna’s ‘S&M’ found itself (and rightly so) at the center of similar furor.
“All Of The Lights” features words in various styles flashing along with the lyrics of the song and clearly recall the opening credits of Gasper Noé’s 2010 film Enter The Void. On the surface it seems a cut-and-dry case of creative laziness leading to the work of another being stolen but this is far from the case here.
Plagiarism is defined as expressing an idea as if it were an original thought. However, at no point in the video is it ever suggested that this is the case. It is obvious from the close attention to detail in the selection of graphic styles that it was not merely an afterthought to hark back to Noé’s original sequence but a careful decision made with each frame. There is no attempt to move away from the original style whatsoever nor cover their tracks. The video is blatant in it’s desire to replicate Noé and does not hide away from it. In comparison, Rihanna’s “S&M” video clearly borrows stylistic features from the work of David LaChapelle but never explicitly refers to him. This would suggest there was something to hide aside from the fact that LaChapelle has raised his own concerns over the video.
You could probably write a very long list of things you can fault with Kanye West. But despite his numerous moments of sheer stupidity, he is clearly an intelligent man. A man with great visual and cultural awareness. Even in his stupidity this is evident as no one could argue that “You Belong With Me” was a better video than “Single Ladies”. The same awareness can be attributed to the video’s director, Hype Williams. So it seems completely illogical that they think they could dupe millions into thinking the work was an original piece and especially with the power of the internet to uncover a fraud. There is a clear difference between trying to pass something off as the work of oneself and paying an ocular homage to a director’s particular trademarks. The video itself is a loving nod to the work of Noé in general and not just the opening credits of Enter The Void. West straddling the roof a police car in a red brick alleyway is a knowing wink to Noe’s previous work. The opening scene of 2002′s Irreversible is set in an equally claustrophobic alley and similarly illuminated by the red and blue flashes of police lights.
Those that are quick to jump on the ‘plagiarism-outrage’ bandwagon should at least try and equip themselves with the facts. The use of words appearing in different fonts and flashing along to the rhythm of music is hardly an original idea in itself. It would be wrong to credit the idea of that to Noé. It is derivative of fellow French music video director and graphic animator Bertrand Lagros de Langeron aka So Me. In partnership with Machine Molle, Lagros oversaw the creation of the “Justice” music video for ‘DVNO’ in 2008 which saw the lyrics of the song appear in various animated guises. Furthermore So Me have done numerous other pieces in a similar style for other artists. Not least for Kanye West’s ‘Good Life’ in 2007 which dates it to three years before the release of Noé’s Enter The Void. The single cover of which can be seen below:
It appears therefore that if West and Williams have a case to answer for plagiarism then by the same logic Noé should be appearing in front of the same court. Though it is obvious that none of them should have to face these ridiculous accusations from the knee-jerk reactions of the visually unaware. One of the aims of art is both to push the boundaries forward whilst also paying tribute to those who had originally set them. Words flashing about on a screen might not exactly been groundbreaking but the progression is clear to see. “All Of The Lights” is an exercise in homage and interpretation for the artistically able and most definitely not an issue for men in suits nor sensationalist journos.
Larry McCloskey is a writer for The Big Screen as well as a contributing author to A&E Playground.
Contact the Author: LarryMcCloskey@ArtsandEntertainmentPlayground.com
Tags: All Of The Lights, Bertrand Lagros de Langeron, controversy, David LaChapelle, director, DVNO, Enter The Void, film, French, Gasper Noé, Good Life, Hype Williams, internet, Justice, Kanye, Kanye West, Lagros, Larry McCloskey, lyrics, Machine Molle, Noé, plagiarism, Rihanna, S&M, single, Single Ladies, So Me, style, Video., West, You Belong With Me
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A COZY MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
Hi, my name is Ramla Zareen. I'm a beta reader and an author of light-hearted, romantic fiction, set in modern-day Pakistan. The main objective of this blog is to recommend wonderful authors of Golden-Age Mystery and Cozy Mystery, though there is also a small section for those who indulge in the genre of Romance. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for visiting!
Blog Introduction
Favourite Mystery Authors
Liked Mystery Authors
Favourite Romance Authors
"Agatha Christie" (1890-1976) was born "Agatha May Clarissa Miller", in Torquay, Devon, England.
She was the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family.
Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child "Agatha Christie" never attended school. She became adept at creating games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and, later in life, to writing.
In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that "Agatha Christie" first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel.
Although it was completed in a year, but she was initially unsuccessful at getting it published. However, in 1920 The Bodley Head press published her novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", featuring the character of "Hercule Poirot." This launched her literary career.
In 1926, Archie asked for a divorce, having fallen in love with another woman. "Agatha", already upset by the recent death of her mother, disappeared. All of England became wrapped up in the case of the now famous missing writer. She was found three weeks later in a small hotel, explaining to police that she had lost her memory. Thereafter, it was never again mentioned or elaborated upon by "Agatha Christie".
She later found happiness with her marriage in 1930 to Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist who she met on a trip to Mesopotamia.
"Agatha Christie" ultimately became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott.
Several of her works were made into successful feature films, Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. In short, she is the single most popular mystery writer of all time.
In 1971 she was awarded the high honour of becoming a Dame of the British Empire.
HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY BOOKS
1) The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1920)
2) Murder On The Links (1923)
3) Poirot Investigates (1924)
4) The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
5) The Big Four (1927)
6) The Mystery Of The Blue Train (1928)
7) Peril At End House (1932)
8) Lord Edgware Dies (1933), aka: Thirteen At Dinner
9) Murder On The Orient Express (1934)
10) Murder In Three Acts (1935), aka: Three Act Tragedy
11) Death In The Air (1935), aka: Death In The Clouds.
12) The A.B.C. Murders (1935)
13) Murder In Mesopotamia (1936)
14) Cards On The Table (1936)
15) Dumb Witness (1937), aka: Poirot Loses A Client
16) Death On The Nile (1937)
17) Dead Man's Mirror (1937) aka: Murder In The Mews And Other Stories
18) Appointment With Death (1938)
19) Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938), aka: Murder For Christmas, aka: A Holiday For Murder
20) The Regatta Mystery And Other Stories (1939)
21) Sad Cypress (1940)
22) The Patriotic Murders (1940), aka: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, aka: An Overdose Of Death
23) Evil Under the Sun (1941)
24) Murder In Retrospect (1943), aka: Five Little Pigs
25) The Hollow (1946), aka: Murder After Hours
26) The Labours Of Hercules (1947)
27) There Is A Tide (1948), aka: Taken At The Flood
28) Witness For The Prosecution And Other Stories (1948)
29) Mousetrap And Other Stories (1950)
30) The Underdog and Other Stories (1951)
31) Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
32) Funerals Are Fatal (1953), aka: After The Funeral
33) Hickory Dickory Death (1955) aka: Hickory Dickory Dock
34) Dead Man's Folly (1956)
35) Cat Among The Pigeons (1959)
36) The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding (1960)
37) Double Sin And Other Stories (1961)
38) The Clocks (1963)
39) Third Girl (1966)
40) Hallowe'en Party (1969)
41) Elephants Can Remember (1972)
42) Hercule Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
43) Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)
MISS MARPLE MYSTERY BOOKS
1) Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
2) The Tuesday Club Murders (1932), aka: The Thirteen Problems
3) The Regatta Mystery And Other Stories (1939)
4) The Body in the Library (1942)
5) The Moving Finger (1943)
6) Mousetrap & Other Stories (1950)
7) A Murder is Announced (1950)
8) Murder with Mirrors (1952), aka: They Do It With Mirrors
9) A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
10) What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (1957), aka: 4:50 from Paddington
12) Double Sin & Other Stories (1961)
13) The Mirror Crack'd (1962), aka: The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
14) A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
15) At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
16) Nemesis (1971)
17) Sleeping Murder (1976)
18) Miss Marple Final Cases (1979)
19) Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (1985)
SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE MYSTERY BOOKS
1) The Secret Of Chimneys (1925)
2) The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
3) Cards On The Table (1936)
4) Murder Is Easy (1939), aka: Easy To Kill
5) Towards Zero (1944), aka: Come And Be Hanged
TOMMY AND TUPPENCE MYSTERY BOOKS
1) The Secret Adversary (1922)
2) Partners In Crime (The Collection Of Short Stories) (1929)
3) N or M (1941)
4) By The Pricking Of My Thumbs (1968)
5) Postern Of Fate (1973)
OTHER MYSTERY BOOKS
1) The Love Detectives
2) The Christmas Tragedy
3) The Jewel Robbery
4) The Incredible Theft
5) The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
6) The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
7) The Sittaford Mystery (1931), aka: The Murder at Hazelmoor
8) Why Didn’t They Ask Evans (1934), aka: Boomerang Clue
9) Parker Pyne Investigates (1934), aka: Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective
11) And Then There Were NoneTen Little Indians
12) Murder Is Easy (1939), aka: Easy to Kill
13) Sparkling Cyanide (1945), aka Remember Death
14) Death Comes as the End (1944)
15) Crooked House (1949)
16) They Came to Baghdad (1951)
17) Destination Unknown (1954), aka: So Many Steps to Death
18) Ordeal By Innocence (1958)
19) The Pale Horse (1961)
20) Endless Night (1967)
21) Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
22) The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1971)
23) Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (1997)
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BOOK EXCERPTS (PART 2 --FROM P.G. WODEHOUSE BOOKS)
P.G. Wodehouse is one author whose books never fail to make me laugh. Hope you also enjoy the following excepts from his books, thanks!
“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a husband's head.”
"He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange backyard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect."
"I mean to say, when a girl, offered a good man’s heart, laughs like a bursting paper bag and tells him not to be a silly ass, the good man is entitled, I think, to assume that the whole thing is off."
"My scheme is far more subtle. Let me outline it for you."
"No, thanks."
"I say to myself--"
"But not to me."
"Do listen for a second."
"I won't."
"Right ho, then. I am dumb."
"And have been from a child."
"Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.”
"You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower."
“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she wishes to tell him that he is an idiot and ought to have his head examined, she can do so and, going further, can add that it is a thousand pities that no-one ever thought of smothering him with a pillow in his formative years.”
"And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need."
"It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.”
'But then everybody says that, though you have a brain like a peahen, you're the soul of kindness and generosity.'
Well, I was handicapped here by the fact that, never having met a peahen, I was unable to estimate the quality of these fowls' intelligence, but she had spoken as if they were a bit short of the grey matter, and I was about to ask her who the hell she meant by 'everybody', when she resumed.
...And there on the path, as if they had been waiting for me by appointment, stood a policeman and a parlourmaid.
"How did you get in?"
"Through the window. Being an old friend of the family, if you follow me."
"Old friend of the family, are you?"
"Oh, very. Very. Very old. Oh, a very old friend of the family."...
"I've never seen him before," said the parlourmaid.
I looked at the girl with positive loathing.
"No," I said. "You have never seen me before. But I'm an old friend of the family."
"Then why didn't you ring at the front door?"
"I didn't want to give any trouble."
"It's no trouble answering front doors, that being what you're paid for," said the parlourmaid virtuously. "I've never seen him before in my life," she added, perfectly gratuitously.
A horrid girl.
“But I say, really, you know, I am an old friend of the family. Why, by Jove, now I remember, there's a photograph of me in the drawing-room. Well, I mean, that shows you!"
"If there is," said the policeman.
"I've never seen it," said the parlourmaid.
I absolutely hated this girl.
"You would have seen it if you had done your dusting more conscientiously," I said severely. And I meant it to sting, by Jove!
"It is not a parlourmaid's place to dust the drawing-room," she sniffed haughtily.
"No," I said bitterly. "It seems to be a parlourmaid's place to lurk about and hang about and - er - waste her time fooling about in the garden with policemen who ought to be busy about their duties elsewhere."
"It's a parlourmaid's place to open the front door to visitors. Them that don't come in through windows."
I perceived that I was getting the loser's end of the thing.
Don't leave me, Bertie. I'm lost.'
'What do you mean, lost?'
'I came out for a walk and suddenly discovered after a mile or two that I didn't know where on earth I was. I've been wandering round in circles for hours.'
'Why didn't you ask the way?'
'I can't speak a word of French.' ...
'Well, why didn't you call a taxi?'
'I suddenly discovered that I've left all my money in my hotel.'
'You could have taken a cab and paid it when you got to the hotel.'
'Yes, but I suddenly discovered, dash it, that I'd forgotten it's name."
We drifted to one of the eleven cafes which jostled each other along the street and I ordered restoratives.
'What on earth are you doing in Paris?'
'Bertie, old man,' said Biffy solemnly, 'I came here to try and forget.'
'Well, you've certainly succeeded.'
ON 'HAPPY ENDINGS' IN BOOKS
I am a fan of happy endings in books and this is one of the reasons that two of my favourite genres are Cozy Mystery and light-hearted Romance ☺
While reading a Mystery, I enjoy the mental stimulation that comes with trying to solve the Mystery along with the sleuth ☺
But I don't crave strong excitement or deep contemplation while reading books. I get more than enough opportunities to ponder over serious issues in real-life and so when I get a chance to temporarily escape into the wonderful world of fiction, I prefer my reading experience to leave me feeling happy and relaxed ☺
With Mystery books, I like the resolution to be logically satisfactory and morally pleasing ☺
In both Mystery and Romance books, even if some secondary positive characters must face sorrow, loss or death, for the right cause ...but it's my preference that the main positive characters in a book manage to achieve happily ever after ☺
As far as the negative characters are concerned, well, if they are sincerely remorseful and there is no permanent damage done then they could be forgiven. But in my opinion, extremely offensive characters, like murderers, don't deserve happy endings.
Basically, I prefer such stories that end on a positive note and convey the message that if people possess wonderful qualities like faith, optimism, courage, honesty, fidelity, loyalty, tolerance, decency, courtesy, compassion, forgiveness etc then they do eventually get blessed with happiness ☺
This motivates me to incorporate such qualities in my own personality ☺
Such endings may not always happen in real-life, however, here I would like to reiterate that as far as I am concerned, I actually do not wish that the books that I read greatly resemble reality, since to me, reading fiction is like going on a vacation to a wonderful world, which is preferably different from the real world, where I can just relax and unwind ☺
Reading such books provide me immense happiness and a sense of deep comfort ...and afterwards, I am prepared to face the responsibilities of real-life with strengthened faith, renewed hope, rested mind and fresh enthusiasm ☺
What is your favourite type of ending in books ...and why?
Those interested are welcome to answer this question through their comments, thanks! ☺
Those interested can also check out the discussion on this topic on Goodreads by clicking ...here...! Thanks! ☺
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CARTOON (NO. 4)
I'm not ignoring you. You just aren't in the world I'm currently habitating.
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BOOK EXCERPTS (PART 1 --INCLUDES DETAILS ABOUT MY FAVOURITE MALE-PROTAGONISTS IN ROMANCE BOOKS)
Today, not only am I going to post excerpts from two of my favourite books, but I would also like to write about my favourite 'male protagonists' in ROMANCE books.
One is "Matthew Farrell", from "Paradise", a CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE novel, written by "Judith McNaught".
The main reason that "Matt" appealed to me was that his love for Meredith (the female protagonist) was completely selfless and unconditional.
For example, when, during their period of separation, Meredith told "Matt" that one of the reasons why they should not remain married was that she might be unable to have children, he still pushed for reconciliation and wanted to continue their marriage. Not out of sense of obligation, compromise, or ulterior motive but only because he loved her. He was willing to lead a childless existence as long as she was in his life.
Towards the end of the story, when she discovered that there was a hope of her having a baby, though with a slight risk to her life, he was adamant that she shouldn't take even that very small risk. Her love and companionship was all that he wanted from her. Her life meant more to him than any child that they might have.
Eventually, he only agreed to let her try for the child because she felt that it was necessary for her happiness...and Meredith's happiness was the important thing for him.
The other is "Ian Thronton", from "Almost Heaven", a HISTORICAL ROMANCE novel, also written by "Judith McNaught".
One great reason for liking "Ian" was the honesty and courage he displayed by acknowledging his love for Elizabeth (the female protagonist), both to himself and to her, right from the very beginning.
One more impressive quality that both "Matt" and "Ian" shared, was that they were self-assured and confident men, with their egos strongly intact.
They felt no compulsion to either intimidate others or ingratiate themselves, to prove their superiority and prowess, nor were they threatened by the abilities of other people.
For example, when, at some point in the story, both of their respective 'heroines', expressed feelings of inadequacy, both men actually tried to build up their self-esteem by showing how "Meredith" and "Elizabeth" had great power over "Matt" and "Ian", respectively.
It was also their love, and faith that their love was sincerely reciprocated, respect for the qualities and abilities of the women they loved, and trust on their innate goodness that they won't take unfair advantage, that allowed both men to behave like this.
Moreover, the same highly intelligent minds that contributed to "Matt's" and "Ian's" professional success provided them with an insight that their wives's self-confidence would eventually benefit their life together, and also, their innate integrity enabled them to motivate rather than disparage.
"Matt's" underlying sensitivity beneath his valiant ambition and aloof demeanour, a sensitivity that was often depicted by his instinctive smartness and intuitive compassion, endeared him to me as much as his sense of humour, that was at times naughty, usually disarming, and always attractive.
Trying to seduce his wife, Meredith, in an attempt at reconciliation, when they were officially separated and living independently...
"I know you want to kiss me back, I can feel it. Why not indulge the impulse," he invited her huskily. "I'm more than willing and completely available..."
To her horror, his teasing statements doused her anger and gave her simultaneous impulses to giggle and to do exactly what he suggested.
"If I die in an accident on the way home tonight," he cajoled softly, his mouth sliding over her cheek towards her lips again, "think how guilty you'll feel if you don't."
As for "Ian", it was the streak of vulnerability that came through at unexpected moments, that touched me:
"You can do this, calculate all those figures in your mind? In moments?"
He nodded curtly, and when Elizabeth continued to stare at him warily, as if he was a being of unknown origin, his face hardened. In a clipped, cool voice he said, "I would appreciate it if you would stop staring at me as if I'm a freak."
Elizabeth's mouth dropped open at his tone and his words. "I'm not."
"Yes," he said implacably. "You are. Which is why I haven't told you before this."
Embarrassed regret surged through her at the understandable conclusion he'd drawn from her reaction. Recovering her composure, she started around the desk toward him.
"What you saw on my face was wonder and awe, no matter how it must have seemed."
"The last thing I want from you is 'awe'," he said tightly, and Elizabeth belatedly realized that, while he didn't care what anyone else thought of him, her reaction to all this was obviously terribly important to him.
Every great author usually has an expertise in some specific aspect of writing.
For example, though most of my favourite ROMANCE authors, in my opinion at least, are about equally talented in delightfully addictive writing, witty dialogues, humorous situations, intricate plots, interesting stories, emphasizing important qualities in relationships, skilful characterisation, inventing lovable protagonists, and weaving superb romance, including both 'ideal love' and 'physical chemistry', between them.
However, I prefer "Georgette Heyer" for her entertaining escapades, authentic period details and slang, and most importantly, for her ability to maintain decency by exquisitely manipulating words to imply physical attraction between the lead characters, without going into intimate details,
...whereas, "Judith McNaught" is my favourite for invoking emotions, developing empathy and emotional attachment with characters, and above all, for her flair for creating, extremely wonderful and absolutely enthralling, male protagonists! ☺
For this reason, I can go on and on describing the adorable qualities of both "Matt" and "Ian" ...but I think that I should better stop gushing about them otherwise some of you might start thinking that I have developed a crush on these fictional characters ☺
Romance readers and authors are welcome to join my group:
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Definition Of "Cozy Mystery"
LIST OF AUTHORS PERSONALLY RECOMMENDED BY ME
My Favourite "Mystery" Authors
My Liked "Mystery" Authors
My Favourite "Romance" Authors
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MYSTERY AUTHORS RECOMMENDED BY OTHER READERS AS WELL AS BY THE ESTEEMED AUTHORS WHO VISIT THIS BLOG
"MYSTERY" AUTHORS RECOMMENDED BY OTHER READERS AS WELL AS BY THE ESTEEMED AUTHORS WHO VISIT THIS BLOG
"WHITE HOUSE CHEF MYSTERY SERIES" BY "JULIE HYZY": ONE OF MY FAVOURITE COZY MYSTERY SERIES
"DEATH ON DEMAND MYSTERY SERIES" BY "CAROLYN G. HART": ONE OF MY FAVOURITE COZY MYSTERY SERIES
AGATHA CHRISTIE: ONE OF MY FAVOURITE "MYSTERY" AUTHORS
AUTHORS (AND THEIR "MYSTERY SERIES")
Cricket McRae
Denise Swanson
Jeanne M. Dams
Jill Churchill
Joanne Pence
Julie Hyzy
Julie Mulhern
Krista Davis
Leslie Caine
Maddy Hunter
Marja McGraw
Ngaio Marsh
Rebecca Douglass
Sheila Connolly
Susan Bernhardt
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE "CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE" AUTHORS
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE "ROMANCE" BOOKS
SOME "ROMANCE" BOOKS THAT I ENJOYED
READING WONDERFUL BOOKS AND EATING DESSERTS PROVIDE ME GREAT PLEASURE
LATEST "COZY MYSTERY" BOOKS
Cozy Mysteries (January, 2015)
Cozy Mysteries (February, 2015)
Cozy Mysteries (March, 2015)
Cozy Mysteries (April, 2015)
Cozy Mysteries (May, 2015)
Cozy Mysteries (June, 2015)
QUOTATIONS AND EXCERPTS
Quotation No. 1
Some Of My Favourite 'First Lines' In Books
Book Excerpts (Part 1)
Cartoon No. 1
GENERAL TOPICS RELEVANT TO BOOKS
On Reading Fiction
On Re-Reading Books
On 'New' Books
On 'Discontinuing' Books
On 'Sighting' Books
On 'Saving' Books
On Love-Triangles In Cozy Mystery Books
On 'Quality Writing Versus Good Story' In Books
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH
Please click on the image, to read about the rough phases during my love affair with perfumes. Thanks!
A DIARY OF A BABY GIRL
Please click on the image, to read a diary, written from the perspective of a baby girl, aged 6 months to 12 months old. Thanks!
MY PERSONAL WRITING ENDEAVOURS
MY POSTS AS A GUEST WRITER ON OTHER BLOGS
MY GOODREADS GROUP: HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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MY BOOK REVIEWS ON GOODREADS
A Deadly Prediction by Carola S. Goodman
Deadly Diamonds by Denise Rodgers
Messiah by Sadaf Shahzad
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Estimating image resolution by re-sampling
How can you estimate the resolution of an image with no obvious resolution target? On targets like the Moon with permanent surface features, this is relatively straightforward. Find the smallest feature that is resolved (e.g. a crater). In images of planets with changeable surface features and less contrast this is more difficult to do. We can use re-sampling of the image to a test resolution as a way to estimate resolution.
Two ways of defining resolution
First let's look at two common ways of referring to resolution that are often confused. Optical measures of resolution are based on minimum resolvable separation of elements like lines or points. Something like the ISO 12233 test chart can be used. Astronomers use a similar measure based on the separation of closely spaced stars. The Rayleigh Criterion and Dawes Limit are based on this measure.
When working with digital images the size of an individual sample - a sensor element or a pixel in an image is often described as its resolution. This pixel size of the image may be different than the actual resolution of the original image. If the original image resolution was better than that of the sensor, that detail has been lost. We call this under sampling of the image. If the original image resolution was less than that captured by the sensor, no detail has been lost. This is called over sampling.
How are these ways of measuring resolution related: the smallest detectable separation between two points and how finely must the image be sampled and not loose detail? The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem describes the relationship between these two measures. A signal must be sampled at twice the rate of its fastest frequency (line spacing) to capture all of the detail (information) in the original image. An intuitive restatement: in order to distinguish two closely spaced points we must sample both the points and the space between them. Measurements made using the these definitions will differ by a factor of two. If you are digitizing an image with a line or point separation based resolution of 2 arc seconds, the size of the sampled pixels must be half this, 1 arc second.
It is common practice to use the line frequency based definition when talking about telescopes and the sample pitch (pixel) definition with digital images. It is easy to confuse the two, but they are different a factor of two!
Estimating real image resolution
When an image resolution has been over sampled, we can use the sampling theorem to estimate the real resolution of the image. We can down-sample the image to correspond to a lower resolution and see if we loose any detail in the image. If the down-sampled image has lost information, we know by the sampling theorem that the original image resolution was greater than that of the down-sampled image. In order to make a visual comparison of the down sampled image to the original image easy, up-sample the image back to match the sampling of the original image. If the re-sampled image shows the same details as the original image, then we know that the down sampled image resolution is better than the real resolution of the original image. By comparing images down sampled to a range of resolutions to the original, we can estimate the actual resolution of the original image.
This is all much clearer in an illustration. The figure below shows a processed image of Jupiter in the center and versions of the image that have been re-sampled to pixel sizes that correspond to from 0.6 to 1.4 arc sec per pixel. Each of these was then up sampled back to match the original image in size. The 0.8 and 0.6 arc sec pixel images are closest to the original. Averaging these and applying our factor of two (sampling to separation) we estimate the original image resolution to be about 1.4 arc sec.
Comparing re-sampled image to detect processing artifacts
When we process images to sharpen them, mistaking artifacts for real image features is a concern. We can use a similar technique to validate a processing work flow, by comparing the processed image with a high resolution image that has been down-sampled to the same resolution. The example below compares of my images compared to one of Christopher Go's amazingly detailed Jupiter images taken a few days before. Christopher's image has been re-sampled to approximately the same resolution as mine.
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Overview & equipment for lunar eclipse photography
Framing and tracking a lunar eclipse
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Processing lunar eclipse images
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“Flowers,” dark Brit-com, is a bouquet of strange
By Joanne Ostrow
Television Critic
“Flowers,” the dark British comedy premiering on the streaming service Seeso on Thursday, is the strangest TV concoction to vie for attention in years. It’s worth a peek just to see how bizarre scripted TV comedy is getting.
This isn’t oddball like “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” on Netflix or odd like the revamped “Odd Couple” on CBS. It’s weirder than those.
Opening with an unsuccessful suicide, narrated in verse, jumping to dreary dark drama, with assorted disconnected characters including an Asian stereotype popping up for no apparent reason, “Flowers” is more downbeat and genre defying than those more standard comedies. It seems to dare viewers to stick with it.
Seeso’s first original scripted comedy, written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Will Sharpe, is a head-scratcher. It does have Olivia Colman (“Broadchurch,” “The Night Manager”) going for it. Colman plays Deborah Flowers, a dotty woman in a seemingly loveless, open marriage.
Deborah is a music teacher; her husband Maurice (Julian Barratt) is the author of illustrated children’s books The Grubbs. They aren’t quite together, but haven’t managed to divorce. They have two maladjusted kids and Maurie’s nutty mom living with them. Deborah aims to keep the family together at all costs and becomes increasingly suspicious that Maurice is in a secret homosexual relationship with his Japanese illustrator Shun (played by show creator Sharpe).
If the rest of comedy is too ordinary for you, you might try “Flowers.”
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The Kurds: A Concise Handbook
Auteur : Mehrdad R. Izady
Éditeur : Crane Russak Date & Lieu : 1992, Washington
Traduction : ISBN : 0-8448-1727-9
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Iza. Kur. N° 2413 Thème : Général
Mehrdad R. Izady
Crane Russak
This book rethinks the relevance of the social sciences, both Marxist and liberal, to social change in the "Third World." The authors are concerned with the failure of contemporary development theory to explain and take seriously the dynamic histories of the peoples of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Breaking with unlinear, ahistorical approaches in economics, sociology, political science, and psychology, the essays explore a broad range of issues in an attempt to break new ground.
Topics discussed include: the link between democracy and raising productivity; the respective influence of technology and social relations in industrialization; the contribution to and participation in development of peasants; the conflict between individual freedom and authoritarianism; the changing relations of governments; and political alliances formed around development issues.
Mehrdad Izady is currently a lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He has undergraduate degrees in History, Political Science, and Geography and masters degrees in International Affairs, Geography, and Middle Eastern Studies. His doctorate is in Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University. He has lectured widely and testified before two U.S. Congressional subcommittees on the Kurds. He has published extensively in the Kurdish Times as well as The Middle East Journal. He has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Asian History and has published maps on the distribution of Kurds.
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B Plus: Dancing for Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre: A Memoir
by: Michael Langlois (author)
Michael Langlois began studying ballet at the age of ten, convinced it would catapult him from Pop Warner directly into the NFL. Eventually forced to choose between football and ballet, he looked at his less-than-five-foot frame and decided ballet might be a more practical option. He went on to... show more
Michael Langlois began studying ballet at the age of ten, convinced it would catapult him from Pop Warner directly into the NFL. Eventually forced to choose between football and ballet, he looked at his less-than-five-foot frame and decided ballet might be a more practical option. He went on to train at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the School of American Ballet in New York before being offered a job at American Ballet Theatre by the foremost dancer of the 20th century: Mikhail Baryshnikov.
B Plus: Dancing for Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre is an intimate look at the upper echelons of the dance world as it appeared to a young man who made it to the top of his profession only to discover a vast plateau filled with dancers whose talents and ambitions were often superior to his own.
While he struggles to move beyond playing toy soldiers and happy, clueless peasants in ABT’s corps de ballet, he wonders what to do about his best friend who is in love with him, how to please his world-famous boss, and just how little you have to eat in a ballet company before anyone notices you.
After sixteen years as a professional, he comes to some important realizations about himself and ballet in general. “What makes ballet so intensely satisfying and beautiful to me,” he writes, “is that it is so spare. There are no props. There are no instruments that have to be manipulated. It is just the dancer at that moment, and whoever they are and whatever they are capable of doing exists then and only then.” [Amazon]
Publisher: Epigraph Publishing
Biography Memoir
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I was a massive Baryshnikov fan back in the 70s and 80s, and therefore this memoir by corps de ballet dancer Michael Langlois was instantly of interest. As it turns out, he's also a reasonably interesting man himself. He's particularly frank about two subjects: the perils of eating disorders, and th...
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BIZARRE. Magenta took its employees to the street – they seem satisfied
A friend in need is a friend indeed. What do you do when you want to get to know your office colleagues and there are no needs looming on the horizon? Magenta Consulting has decided to take control over the situation, to break the routine and daily office habits and to challenge its staff with a City Quest. Thus, the Magenta team was organized into 4 teams; it had four places to guess and visit five tasks to complete and over six kilometers to walk through Chisinau.
What is a city quest? It is simple. Each of the four teams had to walk a route through the capital, with four destinations, or we could also call them “stops”. The exact location of these stops had to be deduced from the hints received by each team. At the destination, the Magenta Consulting colleagues were challenged to pass a trial.
Let us sum up: four teams, from the starting line they guess the first destination, get to it while timed, receive hints for the trial, pass the trial, get the hints for the next destination and hurry again to get to the “stop” ahead of the rival teams.
The first stop. Hint: The stairs and colors are what takes you HOME
Due to the “colors” from the hint, some teams thought that the first stop is the Water Tower which is during the night lighted in different colors or the House of Nationalities. In reality, however, the colleagues from Magenta had to get to the Valea Morilor Park.
There the first trial was waiting for them: with their eyes tied, to pick some candies. Each team was asked to choose a leader and make a line, leaving the leader to be the last in the line. For drama, all members of the team, except the leader, had their eyes tied. Why was the leader not “taken the eyesight”? Because he/she had to lead the team by finding a way to communicate with the team via handshakes and verbal instructions on a route where candies were suspended in the air, over their heads, and had to be picked.
The second stop. Hint: Let’s sit around the walnut tree, look in the eyes, and if you are afraid of the shade, step over the water and jump
The second task, at the second destination was waiting for the Magenta teams at the shade of a walnut tree from the Public Garden Stefan cel Mare si Sfant with quick questions. Each team was asked 16 various questions, such as: What is the speed of light? What peninsula has at its North-East the Pyrenees Mountains? What represents in Italy Serie A? In what artistic style have written Goethe, Byron and Hugo?
The method of answering, however, was a somewhat unusual one. Each group chose a leader. The leader drew the notes indicating the domain the questions would refer to. Taking into account only the topic of the question, before hearing the question, the leader named which member of the team was to answer. If the assigned person answered correctly to the question the team got three points. If the assigned person answered incorrectly, and another member of the team knew the correct answer, the team only got one point.
Thus, the Magenta Consulting employees trained their managerial skills to assign tasks and sense who from the team would cope better depending on the domain. At the same time, the employees had the opportunity to get to know each other better and to find out the domain in which the team members are more skilled.
The third stop. Hint: Even after death we are also side by side…
After walks in the parks of the capital, the Magenta staff continued their “pilgrimage” on the downtown streets, more exactly, at the most romantic intersection: that between the streets Mihai Eminescu and Veronica Micle. Also here was to be passed the third trial which took all of the Magenta employees from their comfort area – they entered contact with unknown people, negotiated with them, practiced their selling techniques and even the most withdrawn members of the team were uninhibited.
Each member of the team rummaged in their bags to find an object they were ready to offer as a gift. During 20 minutes, the object had to be traded for another, more expensive object, offered by passersby. Some of the passersby offered truly valuable items, such as the flag of the Republic of Moldova, refreshing drinks during hot weather, messages of appreciation for the company Magenta, autographs and “talismans” which had a special history in the life of some of the passersby.
Speaking of the comfort area, it was challenged during the entire trip through the city. Members of the teams had to interact with strangers: to find a visit card of a dentist and of a lawyer and to take pictures with a blonde, with a bicyclist, with a person with flowers, with someone wearing shorts and with someone wearing fur (on a hot weather!).
The fourth stop. Hint: Capital of Lithuania in the Center of Chisinau
The last destination brought the Magenta teams to Vilnius, to be more exact to the supermarket Nr.1 – Vilnius. Because action was taking place nearby a food store, the fourth trial was also a gastronomic one. On arriving near Vilnius, each team got a meter of adhesive tape, a meter of thread and 20 pastas in order to build a tower which would be maximum tall and stable enough to support a meringue.
The constructions of our colleagues came out interesting. Someone even managed to build a dough prototype of the Eiffel Tower. The game challenged the members of the teams to be more creative, involved and concentrated in solving a problem with minimum of resources.
The final trial, the fifth one, highlighted the communicative side of the team; the leader had to explain to the team how a lily is made using the origami technique. The source of information could be the internet or passersby, all members of the team had to keep their hands on the paper and listen to the explanation of the leader, because the leader did not have the right to show what was to be done.
In the daily activity communication has a crucial part in the success of innovation and projects realized for the first time. A good marketing specialist must pass the information through their own knowledge and experience in order to correctly interpret the goal to be attained. And a good consultancy and marketing company must know how to determine its good specialists to realize together the best projects.
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According to a recent post at EWeek, Twitter has not reached the elite status of other social networking sites. It has, however, doubled the amount of visits it receives over the past three months. Out of all the social networking sites, it ranked 439, and 4,309 out of all sites overall. Some figures that could alter these statistics are the many different access points other than just the typical computer.
Here at HitWise, Heather Hopkins notes that the majority of Twitter’s users return over and over again, giving the site a very loyal fan base. But ever over the past few months, with Twitter being in the news, such as breaking news about an earthquake in the UK, and freeing a UC Berkley student from an Egyptian jail, this very niche site is receiving lots of air time, and will continue to grow at such fast speed.
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KU nominates 4 students for the Goldwater Scholarship
LAWRENCE — Four University of Kansas students who have been actively involved in undergraduate research during their university careers are competing for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, regarded as the premier undergraduate award to encourage excellence in science, engineering and mathematics.
The students’ applications are coordinated by the Office of Fellowships in Undergraduate Studies.
KU’s nominees:
Pierce Giffin, a junior from Leawood majoring in mathematics and physics
Anna Goddard, a junior from Lincoln, Nebraska, majoring in biology and mathematics
Tyler Nguyen, a junior from Kansas City, Kansas, majoring in chemistry and minoring in astrobiology
Eleanor Stewart-Jones, a junior from Mission majoring in chemistry.
Sixty-five KU students have received Goldwater scholarships since they first were awarded in 1989. Congress established the program in 1986 in tribute to the retired U.S. senator from Arizona and to ensure a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
The Goldwater Foundation trustees will announce the 2019 winners in late March. The scholarships cover eligible expenses for undergraduate tuition, fees, books and room and board, up to $7,500 annually. Each year the trustees award about 250 scholarships and 300 honorable mentions. The number of scholarships to be awarded per state will depend on the number and qualifications of the nominees from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and — considered as a single entity — Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Only sophomore- and junior-level students with outstanding academic records, significant research experience and high potential for careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering were eligible for nomination. Nominees submitted applications that included essays related to the nominee’s career goals and three faculty recommendations. The campus nomination committee is chaired by Mikhail Barybin, professor of chemistry. Students interested in applying next year should contact campus representative Anne Wallen, program director for the Office of Fellowships.
All the nominees are members of the University Honors Program. Brief descriptions of their research experience and career plans follow.
Pierce Giffin is the son of Paul and Maria Giffin of Leawood, and he is a graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School. He is double majoring in mathematics and physics. Giffin is planning a career researching theoretical particle physics. He works in the lab of Assistant Professor Daniel Tapia Takaki in the Department of Physics & Astronomy studying a novel approach to look at a proton structure in terms of its fractal properties. Giffin also participated in a summer REU at Duke University on a nuclear physics topic and is currently working on a research project in the Lenexa-based PhytoTechnology Laboratories.
Anna Goddard is the daughter of Anne and Steve Goddard of Lincoln, Nebraska, and she is a graduate of Lincoln Southwest High School. She is a double major in biology and mathematics. Goddard is planning a career researching genetic diseases. She works in the lab of Associate Professor Maria Orive in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, using mathematical modeling in population and evolutionary biology. Goddard is also a member of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity and has presented at the national Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.
Tyler Nguyen is the son of Tung and Huyen Nguyen of Kansas City, Kansas, and he is a graduate of Piper High School. He is majoring in chemistry with a minor in astrobiology. Nguyen is planning a career researching chemical modifications of materials and proteins for nanotechnology and bioengineering applications. He works in the lab of Professor Cindy Berrie in the Department of Chemistry, developing model systems for enzyme-based sensors for disease diagnosis, a biological application of nanotechnology. He has presented his research in several settings locally and regionally, and he will present soon at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Eleanor Stewart-Jones is the daughter of Brian Jones and stepdaughter of Loes Niedekker, and daughter of Teresa Stewart and stepdaughter of Scott Leigh. A graduate of Shawnee Mission East, her hometown is Mission. Stewart-Jones is majoring in chemistry with a minor in French. She works in the lab of Professor Tim Jackson in the Department of Chemistry, researching the reactivity seen in manganese model systems. Stewart-Jones serves as a research ambassador for the Center for Undergraduate Research and recently presented her research at the Max Planck Matter to Life Conference in Tegernsee, Germany.
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Outstanding humanities graduate students receive Hall Center research awards, internships
LAWRENCE – The Hall Center for the Humanities has recognized several outstanding humanities graduate students with summer research awards and internships. These summer funding opportunities are part of the center’s significant level of support for graduate research.
The Hall Center's Humanities Summer Graduate Internship program supports exceptional and well-rounded doctoral or master's degree students who demonstrate the ability to make outstanding contributions in their chosen humanities or social science disciplines.
Harley Davidson, doctoral candidate in history, will intern at the National World War I Museum. This internship position will offer Davidson the opportunity to work at a unique, world-class history museum with a large, diverse collection and museum professional staff. Projects include creating public space information displays using material from the museum's archival collection and expanding existing and creating new digital content.
Amber Roberts Graham, doctoral candidate in history, will intern at the Truman Library Institute by assisting with two interrelated projects: marketing the museum and membership programs through several audience development strategies and conducting the internal and external research necessary for them to produce a useful summary of the opportunities for growing participation in the Truman Library's programs.
Rebecca Dickman, master's degree student in museum studies, will intern at the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Among other tasks, Dickman will research and develop bibliographies for humanities and visual arts exhibition projects as directed; organize and create entries for an in-house library database; and assist with documentation and installation of in-house exhibitions.
Alyse Bensel, doctoral student in English, will intern with the Kansas Humanities Council, where she will be responsible for researching and writing theater scripts exploring three key moments in Kansas environmental history since the 1860s. Following the completion of the materials outlined above, KHC will organize and premiere the work at sites across Kansas. Scripts and instructions will be made available for free download from the KHC website.
Meaghan Kelly, master's degree student in English, will intern at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This internship will provide a comprehensive experience in fundraising with an emphasis in prospect research, donor data management, and stewardship and grant-writing. Kelly will provide support to the museum's advancement division by assisting with varied administrative tasks.
Katrina Lynn, doctoral student in history, will intern with the Franklin County Historical Society. Lynn will conduct the preliminary research to determine the feasibility of several large-scale projects made possible by the recent completion of the scanning of some 6,000 negatives of photographs taken during the 1930s, '40s and '50s in Ottawa and its environs, many of which were published in the Ottawa newspaper. Within this collection are several hundred images documenting the World War II era, which are representative of small-town America during the war years.
In addition to the internships, four outstanding graduate students were selected for Graduate Summer Research Awards. These awards offer summer support for graduate students engaged in humanistic dissertation research and writing. The goal of these awards is to make possible full-time dissertation work for the months of June and July.
The four winners:
Alison Miller, art history, “Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei”
Evgeny Grishin, history, “Becoming a ‘Schismatic’: The Concepts of the ‘Schism’ and ‘Schismatic’ in the Church and State Discourses of 17th and 18th-century Russia”
Renee Harris, English, “Reading Keats: Sociability and the Work of Affect”
David Trimbach, geography, “Citizenship Capital in Narva, Estonia”
These students will organize the Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshops during the academic year following the summer of support, where they and fellow graduate students will present their work. The Hall Center will post workshop meeting dates on its website. The Graduate Summer Research Awards are made possible by the support of the Friends of the Hall Center.
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Banque du Liban
Title: Banque du Liban
Subject: Economy of Lebanon, Agriculture in Lebanon, Lebanese shipping, FFA Private Bank, Middle East Airlines
Collection: 1963 Establishments in Lebanon, Banks Established in 1963, Central Banks, Economy of Lebanon
مصرف لبنان(Arabic)
Riad Salameh
Central bank of
LBP (ISO 4217)
Interest on reserves
www.bdl.gov.lb
Bank of Lebanon (Officially French: Banque du Liban) BDL (Arabic: مصرف لبنان) is the central bank of Lebanon. It was established on August 1, 1963 and became fully operational on April 1, 1964. It is currently headed by Riad Salameh, who was named the Middle East's best central bank governor by Euromoney in 2005.
One of the main responsibilities of the bank is issuing Lebanon's currency, the Lebanese Pound. Other responsibilities include maintaining monetary stability, regulation of money transfers, and maintaining the soundness of the banking sector. Banking is a very important part of Lebanon's economy with over 100 different banks, which makes the role of Banque du Liban particularly important. It currently owns 99.37% of the shares of Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines. However, plans call for it to sell its stake in the airline by 2008 as part of government plans to privatize many institutions.
The government has recently launched an ambitious 5-year economic reform program in hopes to cut the country's debt. The outcome of the reform program will largely be dependent on Banque du Liban.
Besides the main branch in Beirut, it has branches in Aley, Baalbeck, Bikfaya, Jounieh, Nabatiye, Sidon, Tripoli, Tyre, and Zahlé.
Role and function 2
The Monetary Policy 3
The Governing Body 4
Ottoman domination of Lebanon, which lasted for more than four centuries, was brought to an end on October 6, 1918, with the entrance of the Levant Marine Division in Beirut roads. The paper money issued by the Turkish Treasury, with a forced exchange rate, suffered the same fate.
In order to normalize economic life in the occupied territories and cover the expenses of the allied forces, English authorities imposed the banknote of the National Bank of Egypt, the Egyptian currency having been, since October 30, 1916, closely linked to the sterling and entirely covered by securities issued in sterling.
In accordance with the convention signed between the French and the British governments on September 15, 1919, a new occupying authority started to rule Lebanon. French troops replaced the British, under the command of General Gouraud, who was appointed on October 12, 1919 as "High-Commissioner of the French Republic in Syria and Cilicia, and Commander-in-Chief of the Levant Army". Consequently, the use of the Egyptian currency, suitable for the British Treasury, became inappropriate. To obtain Egyptian pounds, France, being the sole occupying power, had to offer increasing amounts of francs.
During World War I, the French franc had maintained its status thanks to advances from the British and American Treasuries. However, in 1919, the French franc registered a drop because of the British government's decision to stop these advances, thus breaking the alliance between the franc, the sterling and the dollar, and also because of the United States Government's decision to suspend its regulating role of the associated change rates. In order to replace the Egyptian pound, the French government decided, by Decree N° 129 issued by the High Commissioner on March 13, 1920, to endow Syria with a national currency.
On September 1, 1920, the representative of France proclaimed Great Lebanon. In 1920, the Bank of Syria was granted the concession of issuing the Syrian currency, which became legal tender on May 1, 1920. Banknotes issued by this bank were reimbursable to the bearer or at sight by checks drawn on Paris, at the rate of FF 20 for one Syrian pound.
As a consequence, an independent, currency-issuing department was established at the Bank of Syria. It was responsible for putting in circulation and withdrawing banknotes. Issuances were made either on behalf of the Treasury in Paris or on behalf of the Bank itself.
Concerning commercial operations, the Issuing Department was to provide the Bank of Syria with banknotes only in exchange of foreign currencies or foreign securities, which constituted, together with the credits granted by the Treasury in Paris, the coverage of the currency in circulation.
The Banque du Liban was established by the Code of Money and Credit promulgated on 1 August 1963, by Decree no. 13513. It started to operate effectively on 1 April 1964. BDL is a legal public entity enjoying financial and administrative autonomy. It is not subject to the administrative and management rules and controls applicable to the public sector. Its capital is totally appropriated by the State.
The BDL is endowed by law, with the prerogatives to fulfill its mission. It can use all measures it deems appropriate to ensure exchange rate stability, specifically the intervention in the foreign exchange market by buying and selling foreign currencies.
The BDL controls bank liquidity by adjusting discount rates, by intervening in the open market, as well as by determining credit facilities to banks and financial institutions. It regulates banks' credit in terms of volume and types of credit, by imposing credit ceiling, by directing credits towards specific purposes or sectors and setting the terms and regulations governing credits in general. The BDL imposes on banks reserve requirements on assets and loans as determined by BDL, as well as penalties should shortfalls occur. Investment in TBs may be considered by the BDL as part of the reserve requirements.
The BDL grants licenses for the establishment of banks, financial institutions, brokerage firms, money dealers, foreign banks, leasing companies and mutual funds in Lebanon. The Banking Control Commission controls and supervises these institutions. Conferring with the Association of Banks, the BDL issues circulars and resolutions governing the relations of banks with their customers.
There is a regular coordination between the BDL and the Government in order to ensure consistency between BDL's objectives and those of the Government. Cooperation with the Government implies coordinating fiscal and monetary policy measures. It informs the Government on economic matters that might negatively affect the national economy and currency and suggests measures that might benefit the balance of payments, the price level, public finance and offers advice on how to promote economic growth. It also ensures the relations between the Government and international financial institutions.
The Monetary Policy
A favorable environment has characterized the Lebanese economy in 2003. Lebanon is maintaining its commitment to exchange rate stability and to the soundness of its banking sector, in addition to implementing an ambitious fiscal adjustment program.
Confidence was boosted by the successful outcome of Paris-II conference, held in November 2002 with the participation of a number of countries and international organizations. An aggregate amount of US$4.3 billion was pledged in 15-year loans at reduced rates to support the government's economic reform plan for lowering the servicing cost of public debt, which accumulated over the years due to costly reconstruction efforts.
These developments led to a significant drop in TBs' interest rates, followed by a cut in commercial banks' average deposit and lending rates in Lebanese pound (LBP) and in foreign currencies. In parallel, USD holdings were being converted on a wide scale into LBP holdings. Moreover, the BOP performance, which started to improve in May 2002, remained on the same trend, with cumulative surpluses exceeding $2 billion at end-April 2003, while BDL assets in foreign currencies stood at more than $10 billion, excluding gold.
In the last few months, a strong demand emerged on Lebanese government paper in local and foreign currencies, due to increased confidence, reinforced in April by the Government's ability to pay from the Treasury a maturing $500 million Eurobond issue, without resorting to rollover as in the past. This was accompanied by a positive assessment by the IMF and major international rating agencies, which considered that Lebanon is on the right track in trying to end its economic and financial difficulties, and that its performance in coping with the aftermath of the war in Iraq is the best in the region.
In the banking sector, equity capital continued to increase, reaching $3.5 billion at end-April, and pushing the average capital adequacy ratio to 18%. Despite their modest growth, private sector loans attained 100% of GDP, a unique performance in itself. Deposits grew at an annual 11% rate, reaching $47 billion at end-April - more than double the GDP - with a dollarization rate dropping to 68%, from a 74% peak in May 2002. This excellent performance was buttressed by the BDL's efforts to strengthen prudential supervision, paving the way for compliance with Basle-II requirements by a sound banking sector, ready to better manage operational risks, and to improve transparency and good governance.
The government's commitment to decelerate the growth of public debt and to reduce its servicing cost was reflected in the conservative budgets of 2002 and 2003. Coupled with measures to achieve the highest possible proceeds from privatization and securitization, this strategy will be pursued over the medium term, expectedly leading to a public finance recovery.
The Banque du Liban is managed by the Governor who is assisted by four Vice-Governors, as well as by the Central Council.
The Governor is the legal representative of the Banque du Liban, and has extensive authority on the management of the Bank. He is entrusted with the enforcement of the Code of Money and Credit, and the implementation of the Central Council's resolutions. Upon the proposal of the Minister of Finance, the Governor is appointed by decree sanctioned by the Council of Ministers, for a renewable six- year term.
After the consultation with the Governor and upon the proposal of the Minister of Finance, the Vice-Governors are appointed by decree sanctioned by the Council of Ministers for a renewable five-year term. They assist the Governor in managing the Bank, carrying out functions specified by the Governor. In addition, they assume their duties as members of the Central Council.
The Central Council sets the monetary and credit policies of the Bank, including money supply, and discount and lending rates. It discusses and decides, among other things, on issues concerning the banking and financial sectors, the establishment of clearing houses, the issuing of currency and on loan requests by the public sector entities.
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When Florida seceded from the Union on January 10, 1861, it possessed, by far, the smallest population of any of the Southern States - 140,000, and was the third smallest state in all the Union. Of the total population, 78,000 were white with about 16,000 of military age - almost all would serve in the war in one fashion or another. The governor at the time of secession was Madison Starke Perry, who, by the end of the year, would be in command of the 7th Florida Infantry Regiment. John Milton would succeed Perry as governor.
The first concern for Florida after secession was the occupation of Federal facilities, most importantly Fort Pickens, Fort Barrancas and the Pensacola Navy Yard. Quick action by Lt. Adam Slemmer of the 1st U. S. Artillery prevented Fort Pickens from ever falling into Confederate hands. On January 10, he moved his small command (about 80 men), from Fort Barrancas to Fort Pickens, which commanded the entrance to Pensacola Bay. As long as the Federals controlled the pass, the Confederates could neither enter nor exit the bay. Two days after Slemmer moved across the bay, Commodore James Armstrong surrendered the Pensacola Navy Yard to state troops, for which he was later court-martialed.
Florida was divided into two military districts - the District of West Florida, and the District of Middle and East Florida. In March 1861, General Braxton Bragg assumed command of the Confederate forces in West Florida, mainly the troops around Pensacola. In October 1861, the Confederate Government assigned Brigadier General James H. Trapier to command Middle and East Florida, but soon fell ill and was replaced by Brigadier General Joseph Finegan.
The first major action in Florida occurred on October 9, 1861, when 1,000 Confederate troops, under the command of General R. H. Anderson, snuck ashore on Santa Rosa Island with the objective of surprising the Federal garrison at Fort Pickens, taking the fort, and opening the port. On the way to the fort, the Confederates ran into Union troops encamped outside the fort who sounded the alarm. After skirmishing much of the night, the Confederates withdrew from the island at daybreak. Federal troops suffered 43 casualties - 14 killed and 29 wounded. The Confederates lost 17 killed, 39 wounded, and 30 captured.
A month and a half later, the Union and Confederate forces would again square off at Pensacola, this time using only artillery. For two days, the cannon of Fort Pickens and the guns from the Federal ships Niagara and Richmond traded shots with Fort McRee and the Confederate batteries around Pensacola. The Confederates suffered 21 wounded, 1 mortally; Union losses were 5 killed and 12 wounded.
The largest battle in Florida occurred at Olustee on February 20, 1864. The Federals, believing Florida vulnerable both militarily and politically, mounted a campaign to drive into the heart of the state and possibly establish a new government sympathetic to the Union. The Union forces, under the command of Brigadier General Truman Seymour, landed at Jacksonville and marched west toward Tallahassee, the state capital. However, Confederate forces, commanded by General Finegan, stopped the Federal troops at Olustee Station near Ocean Pond. In the engagement, the Confederates lost 93 killed, 847 wounded, and 6 missing while the Union lost 203 killed, 1,152 wounded, and 506 missing. Union forces would not occupy Tallahassee until after the end of the war. In between battles, little happened in Florida. The Confederates used their Florida troops elsewhere, and the Union only raided the smaller ports.
In all, Florida contributed nearly 16,000 troops to the Confederate cause (10% of their population), or about 1.5 % of the entire Confederate Army. They would raise eleven infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, several batteries of artillery, plus various smaller units of all branches; the Union raised two cavalry units from Florida.
https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/Regimental/florida/confederate/index
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Part 3 – Greying populations: where is the demographic dividend?
People Economy
by Alwyn Didar Singh |
Let me now go back to what I began with in part 1 of this three-part article. The issue of Europe’s greying population. That population pyramid now finds itself being inverted — and in some countries, that is causing the entire economy to topple.
Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom was neo-Malthusian — for individuals, for families and for societies, one of the keys to prosperity was having fewer children.
Now, that thinking has been turned upside down. Even China, which for decades has followed the one-child policy of population control, now fears it may get old before it gets rich. Meanwhile, India, whose fertility was once seen as its national curse, is touted as a rising investment prospect thanks to its “demographic dividend.”
So what can Europe do? There are only two options. Increase retirement age or allow in more migrants. The first option seems to be an obvious choice. Working longer has three great advantages. The employee gets more years of wages; the government receives more in taxes and pays out less in benefits; and the economy grows faster as more people work for longer.
Unfortunately this option is rather limited and countries and corporates using it are reporting several problems with it – including individual workers refusing to accept the voluntary option of extension of their working life. The second option too has both political and social ramifications. I do not need to remind you of the recent incident in Norway, perpetuated by an anti-immigrant madman.
There is little doubt that the most significant driver of migration will be the ageing population in Europe and in other developed countries. This will be the pull factor. The growing working population in the developing world will be the push factor. I had earlier mentioned the case of ‘outsourcing’.
It is really a migration issue.
With high old age dependency ratios, the preference is to shift in favour of technology when it is obvious that social security schemes need the support of a working migrant population to shore them up. Developed countries have the Hobson’s choice of either accepting immigration or losing jobs to developing economies with a growing working population.
Whatever the decision, it will require exceptional political will to implement.
The phenomenon of population ageing in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries will not go away. The International Migration Outlook brought out by the OECD proposes a road-map to manage labour migration that suggests better identification of labour market needs and adjusting flows accordingly.
Migration must be managed since ageing population and skill shortage is a reality especially in the context of the on-going economic crisis. Ultimately it’s all about competitiveness.
If the United States and European countries are to retain their competitive advantage, their universities, firms and industries will need a healthy flow of talent from abroad. Yet, many of them are coming up with walls to halt or severely curtail the mobility of talent.
In an already existing economic downturn the results can be even more disastrous. In fact a recent study in the UK estimated that the recently imposed cap on immigration will result in the UK economy losing some 1 percent of GDP growth.
It is also necessary to mention here the debate on ‘brain drain’ in the context of a globalizing economy and ageing societies. Today, the developed world is perceived as poaching the best and the brightest from the developing world, thus prejudicing those countries of their chance of development.
There are however two caveats to this premise: first, that any brain drain is as much internal within any country as it is among countries and, second, that the skilled migration system should not be seen in isolation from other types of migration.
There are two forms of discretionary labour migration. One is so-called “supply-driven” and reflects what Australia and Canada have generally done. These countries invite persons abroad interested in migrating to apply and then assess them on the basis of certain criteria (age, knowledge of the language, educational qualifications, occupation, work experience, presence of relatives in the country, etc.).
Points are awarded for each characteristic and persons having a certain minimum number of points are invited to immigrate with their immediate families, up to a pre-specified maximum per year.
Then there is the “demand- or employer-driven” migration, that is, employers make requests for workers to public authorities (generally they have specific persons in mind), which then allow the workers to come in if they deem that no workers in the country could satisfy the job requirements of the jobs for which the potential immigrants are being recruited.
This form of labour migration is the most common one and is the one prevalent in the United States, Europe and Japan. There is generally a “labour market test” to determine if workers in the country could take on the job.
Let me now turn to India. India’s experience as a major country of origin, transit and destination combined with its objective to forge a coherent and progressive migration policy that addresses the entire ‘virtuous cycle’ of human resource mobility, places us in a unique position.
Whilst we have an estimated overseas Indian workforce of over 7 million, what is less known is that India with its rapidly growing economy and its pluralistic society is also host to millions of migrants. They live and work in India and contribute to our economy.
The primary motivation for migration is economic and at the heart of migration management is the imperative to maximize the development impact of international migration for all. The scale and spread of the Indian experience of managing Migration as well as Development and the intimate interplay of these two complex processes is matchless.
With the second largest overseas population, its status as the country that receives the highest remittances, its experience in effectively addressing the problems of poverty, inequality and unemployment, India can provide the much needed impetus to meaningfully reinforce the symbiotic development-migration paradigm.
India exemplifies the strengths of a large, tolerant, secular, live democracy with a pluralistic society in which people of different faiths, languages, ethnicities and political persuasions co-exist and thrive.
Indeed, this milieu is the ‘sine qua non’ of any society that can create conditions for positive migratory movements and labour mobility for the benefit of all.
This places India in a position to help contribute in the international community’s efforts to develop an appropriate world migration strategy.
India is also one of the pioneers in recognizing the importance of its overseas population and establishing an institutional framework for sustainable and mutually beneficial engagement with its Diaspora.
By creating an independent and effective Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, India has given mainstream attention to its estimated 25 million strong overseas Indian community. This experience too has helped us develop appropriate and well calibrated institutional responses, through bilateral and multilateral engagement, to meet the challenges of capacity building for better migration management.
Estimated as the second largest Diaspora at over 25 million and spread across 189 countries, overseas Indians are today recognised as the ‘Knowledge Diaspora’.
Their ‘virtual presence’ across sectors and in most parts of the globe makes them a strategic resource. We recognise the need therefore, to bring a strategic dimension to India’s engagement with its overseas community.
We have taken a medium to long term view and are attempting to forge a partnership that will best serve India as a rapidly growing knowledge economy – to drive innovation and entrepreneurship – and meet the aspirations of the overseas Indian community as a significant constituency across the world.
We also recognize that there is no single, homogenous overseas Indian community. Indeed, there are communities within communities, each differentiated by their ability and willingness to engage with India and with distinct expectations. Our policy focus has therefore been on developing a mobility strategy that will provide for the wide range of roles and expectations and maximize collaborative engagement.
Let me conclude by raising a few questions.
The challenges in managing migration effectively at the international levels include finding and maintaining a balance between measures addressing various migration related issues, without creating improvement in one sphere to the detriment of another.
Should any or all migration policy issues be considered within an international comprehensive approach? Are some elements more important than others? Should the elements be common to all States or will each State develop its own package based on domestic priorities?
Any discussion on elements of a managed migration approach would need to take into consideration both what constitutes a comprehensive set of elements, and who the partners required to implement these elements are.
I am aware there are no easy answers but our endeavour should be to search for and find them, together, as partners of a common global destiny.
This is Part 3 of a three part article, written under the title of Migration in a Globalised World: Going and growing beyond Borders
by Alwyn Didar Singh
Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs. Dr. Alwyn Didar Singh is a senior civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), presently posted as Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.
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Concentrations of organochlorines in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from Southern Australian waters
Evans, K and Hindell, MA and Hince, G, Concentrations of organochlorines in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from Southern Australian waters, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 48, (5-6) pp. 486-503. ISSN 0025-326X (2004) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2003.08.026
Concentrations of DDTs, PCBs and HCHs were measured in sperm whales involved in two mass stranding events on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia in February 1998. DDTs and PCBs were present in all samples analysed, while only three contained HCHs. The relationships between organochlorines, sex, age and reproductive groups were marked by high variability. Differences in organochlorine concentrations were observed between animals from the two stranding sites and discussed in light of the ecology of this species. Concentrations of all pollutants were stratified throughout the vertical aspect of the blubber and possible reasons for and the implications of this are discussed. Concentrations of compounds were higher than those documented in this species in the Southern Hemisphere previously, although were relatively lower than those documented in the Northern Hemisphere. However, comparisons were confounded by spatial and temporal differences. Continued monitoring of marine mammals throughout this region in a co-coordinated, standardized manner is essential for establishing definite temporal and spatial variations in pollutant concentrations. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts)
Evans, K (Dr Karen Evans)
Hindell, MA (Professor Mark Hindell)
TAFI - Zoology
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
Colloquium | March 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Room 290
Speaker: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Associate Professor, History and African American Studies and Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA
Respondent: Eric Henderson, Policy Associate, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Sponsors: Center for Research on Social Change, Department of History, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Equity and Inclusion, Vice Chancellor
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. In this talk based on her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, she unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernández documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration.
But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation’s carceral core. View the City of Inmates book trailer here: http://www.ibiblio.org/uncp/media/hernandez/
Followed by a reception with light refreshments.
Hearst Memorial Mining Building Room 290, UC Berkeley
Sponsored by Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by Department of History, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Division of Equity and Inclusion, UC Berkeley
Refreshments: Followed by a reception with light refreshments.
Event contact: crsc@berkeley.edu, 510-642-0813
Document: View the City of Inmates book trailer here
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator. Marshali
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Andre Rison Explained
Position: Wide receiver
Number: 85, 80, 81, 84, 89, 3, 87
Birth Date: 18 March 1967
Birth Place: Flint, Michigan
Height Ft: 6
Height In: 0
Weight Lb: 188
High School: Flint (MI) Northwestern
College: Michigan State
Draftyear: 1989
Draftround: 1
Draftpick: 22
Atlanta Falcons (–)
Kansas City Chiefs (–)
Toronto Argonauts (–)
Super Bowl champion (XXXI)
5× Pro Bowl (1990–1993, 1997)
First-team All-Pro (1990)
3× Second-team All-Pro (1991–1993)
NFL receiving touchdowns co-leader (1993)
92nd Grey Cup champion
Statlabel1: Receptions
Statvalue1: 743
Statlabel2: Receiving yards
Statvalue2: 10,205
Statlabel3: Receiving touchdowns
Statvalue3: 84
Nfl: RIS519110
Nfl-New: andrerison/2502674
Cfl-Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20140601170951/http://cfl.ca/roster/show/id/801
Andre "Bad Moon" Rison (born March 18, 1967) is a former American football wide receiver who played professionally for the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders, and the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts. Rison was selected to the Pro Bowl five times, from 1990–1993 and once again in 1997.
Rison won a Super Bowl championship with the Packers in 1996 over the New England Patriots, scoring the first points of the game on a 54-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Brett Favre. He also won a Grey Cup championship with the Toronto Argonauts in 2004. He is one of the few players to win professional football championships in both the United States of America and Canada. He was released by the Argonauts during the 2005 CFL season. He holds an NFL record for scoring a touchdown with 7 teams.
He was a star player at Flint Northwestern High School and in college at Michigan State University. As a senior at Michigan State, Rison had 30 receptions for 709 yards and 5 touchdowns; he was a prominent contributor to the 1987 Michigan State squad that won the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1988.
The Indianapolis Colts selected Rison in the first round (22nd overall) of the 1989 NFL Draft. In his rookie season, he caught 52 passes for 820 yards with four touchdown receptions.
On April 20, 1990, the Indianapolis Colts traded Rison, Chris Hinton, a fifth round pick in the 1990 NFL Draft, and their first round pick on the 1991 NFL Draft to the Atlanta Falcons for their first overall pick and their fourth round pick in the 1990 NFL Draft. The Indianapolis Colts used the trade to move up to select Jeff George first overall in the 1990 NFL Draft. His next season marked the first of five very productive campaigns with the Falcons. During these years, Rison finished near the top of most receiving categories, and led all NFL players with 15 receiving touchdowns in 1993. Andre Rison was only the 5th Receiver in NFL history to score 60 touchdowns in his first six seasons. Rison led the NFL in most receptions in his first four and first five seasons. Rison was second in the NFL for most receptions in six seasons. During his final season in Atlanta, on June 9, 1994, his girlfriend at the time Lisa Left Eye Lopes from TLC burned Rison's house down.
After the 1994 season, Rison signed a lucrative free agent contract with Cleveland, where he was expected to become the featured receiving threat for the Browns, who had made the playoffs the year before.[1] Rison, who had been named to the Pro Bowl in four of his previous six seasons, had career lows in receptions (47), yards (701), touchdowns (3), receptions per game (2.9), and yards per game (43.8). Rison also developed a feud with the Cleveland fans, who were angered over the announcement that the team would be relocating to Baltimore. After a home loss to the Packers, Rison, who had been booed by the fans throughout the game, lashed out, stating, "We didn't make the fucking move. So, for all the booers, fuck you too. I'll be glad when we get to Baltimore, if that's the case. We don't have any home-field advantage. I've never been booed at home. Baltimore's our home. Baltimore, here we come."[2] Rison, however, did not make the move with the team to Baltimore as he joined the Jacksonville Jaguars in the offseason.
Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders
Rison had a very short stint with the Jaguars, and joined the Packers in 1996. He won a Super Bowl ring in his stint with the Packers. He signed with the Chiefs prior to the 1997 season. He made it to the Pro Bowl after a solid first year with the Chiefs. His 2nd season was less successful. In his final NFL season, with the Raiders in 2000, Rison had 41 catches for 606 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Rison finished his NFL career with 743 receptions for 10,205 yards and 84 touchdowns, along with 8 kickoff returns for 150 yards and 9 carries for 23 yards.
He signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in August 2004, who went on to win the 92nd Grey Cup championship that year. He was released by the team in August 2005.[3] [4] [5]
Rison is also remembered for his life off the football field, which garnered him the nickname "Bad Moon" Rison from ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman, alluding to the song "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
During his three-season stint with Kansas City, Rison was nicknamed Spider-Man and would often fake shooting a web, like Spider-Man after scoring a touchdown.[6] Rison gave himself the nickname in part because he viewed Spider-Man as a positive character and wanted to be thought of as less of a headache and problem. His "Spider-Man" nickname has been named one of the best nicknames in sports history by Bleacher Report.[7]
In the 2006–2008 high school football seasons, Rison was assistant coach at Beecher High School in Flint, Michigan. The head coach was Courtney Hawkins, Rison's former teammate at Michigan State.
In March 2010, Rison was named the new head coach for Flint Northwestern High School's football team.[8]
For the opening week of the 2010 and 2011 high school football seasons, Rison and Flint Northwestern faced off against Courtney Hawkins and Flint Beecher. Not only did these games showcase two former NFL players coaching at their alma maters, but the schools are so close geographically that it made for an intriguing and intense rivalry. The crowds came in large numbers for both games, which forced each game to Flint's 11,000 seat Atwood Stadium, instead of Flint Beecher's Russ Reynolds Field, or Flint Northwestern's Guy V. Houston Stadium. Beecher won the 2010 opener, 28-18, spoiling Rison's head coaching debut.[9] The 2011 opener was a thriller, with Northwestern holding on for a 46-44 double overtime victory. In two years at Flint Northwestern, Rison's coaching the team showed noticeable improvement in his second season, nearly doubling their offensive output, and losing four of their games by a combined total of only nine points. In May 2012, Rison announced that he was leaving Flint Northwestern in order to complete his degree at Michigan State and join the football team as an assistant coach.[10]
Andre Rison coached in 2014 for Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the offensive coordinator, where he "led" them to a 0-9 record. He also coached his son Hunter Rison, who committed to Michigan State on April 1, 2016.[11] [12]
Rison also trains wide receivers at the Andre Rison Football Academy, and he coached in the 2008 Hawaii All-Star Classic. Rison has also recently appeared on an episode of the MTV reality show Made.[13] He worked to help a student become a high school varsity quarterback.[14] Rison was a featured Pro on the second season of the reality show Pros vs. Joes on Spike TV, and also appeared in an episode of TNA Impact (now called Impact Wrestling). He was at the center of the hexagonal ring, and then Abyss came out and Black Hole slammed Rison.
Rison appears prominently in the 2012 ESPN 30-30 documentary Broke about former professional athletes who squander their wealth. The film, directed and written by Billy Corben of Rakontur, was featured at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival as part of its TFF/ESPN Sports Festival, and is included in the second season (styled as "Volume II") of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series.
On May 30, 2017, Rison was one of eight new inductees announced for the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in Detroit. The induction ceremony took place on September 15, 2017.
Rison dated Lisa Lopes of TLC on and off from 1993 to 2001. Their relationship was rocky, with domestic violence allegations. During one altercation, Lopes attempted to light his shoes on fire in the bathtub resulting in his house burning down.[15] [16]
Andre's son, Hunter Rison, played as a true freshman wide receiver for Michigan State University in 2017, before transferring to Kansas State University in 2018.[17]
Web site: Andre Rison at the Canadian Football League . May 6, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140601170951/http://cfl.ca/roster/show/id/801 . June 1, 2014 . yes . mdy-all .
Web site: Andre Rison at CFL (alternate link) . May 6, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150930163720/http://cfl.ca/roster/show?id=801 . September 30, 2015 . yes . mdy-all .
Web site: Andre Rison at Yahoo! Sports . May 6, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050418170929/http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/623/ . April 18, 2005 . bot: unknown . mdy-all .
Web site: Andre Rison at Sports Illustrated . May 6, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120925022329/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players/623/ . September 25, 2012 . bot: unknown . mdy-all .
Web site: www.andrerison.com – Official website . October 4, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20010515224106/http://www.andrerison.com/ . May 15, 2001 . yes . mdy-all .
Web site: Andre Rison Football Academy . October 4, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131103084024/http://www.andrerison.com/andre-rison-football-camp.php . November 3, 2013 . yes . mdy-all .
News: Affair To Remember Emotional Browns Pound The Bengals . . Cabot . Mary Kay . December 17, 1995 . December 31, 2008.
News: BROWNS CAN'T SNEAK WIN PACKERS HALT TESTAVERDE RALLY, 31-20 . . Cabot . Mary Kay . November 19, 1995 . December 31, 2008.
https://www.tsn.ca/story/print/?id=95733 "Argonauts sign veteran Andre Rison."
News: Dropped: CFL's Argonauts release ex-Pro Bowler Rison . August 26, 2005 . www.espn.com . October 30, 2013.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/2004-08-22-rison-argonauts_x.htm "Andre Rison signs with CFL club."
News: Prisco . Pete . Jaguars' 'Bad Moon' on rise as Chiefs' 'Spiderman' . April 9, 2012 . . November 7, 1997.
News: Sickel . Jeremy . Jaguars' 'Bad Moon' on rise as Chiefs' 'Spiderman' . April 9, 2012 . . June 11, 2012.
http://www.minbcnews.com/sports/story.aspx?id=436842#.UnKVQKrV5CU "Andre Rison named Northwestern High’s football coach."
http://www.minbcnews.com/sports/story.aspx?id=502869#.UG3jnWY24xA "Beecher spoils the head coaching debut of Andre Rison."
Spezia, Mark. "Flint Northwestern football coach Andre Rison resigns; will complete degree and coach at Michigan State." www.highschoolsports.milive.com, May 4, 2012. Retrieved Oct., 4, 2012
https://247sports.com/Player/Hunter-Rison-58278 "Hunter Rison, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Skyline)"
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/211059/hunter-rison "Hunter Rison, Class of 2017."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP6-LkFgS0k "MTV MADE at Football University."
Going undercover as an aspiring college quarterback prospect . Armstrong . Kevin . May 9, 2008 . . December 31, 2008.
http://theboombox.com/lisa-left-eye-lopes-tlc-burns-house/
http://www.mtv.com/news/1444504/tlcs-lisa-left-eye-lopes-to-wed-andre-rison/
Web site: Former Michigan State WR Hunter Rison transferring to Kansas State . MLive.com. January 20, 2018. October 2, 2018.
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Almost from the beginning the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia (GOC of SA) has been dedicated to the spiritual needs and guidance of the Orthodox faithful in South Australia.
Our first church established by the GOC of SA in Adelaide was the Archangels of Michael and Gabriel in 1937 at its current location in the western end of Franklin Street in the City. Our churches are mostly positioned within the inner suburbs of Adelaide as well as the Holy Chapel of St. Anargyroi at Ridleyton, serving thousands of worshippers. All our churches are under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church of America and Australia and follow the Gregorian calendar.
Today the GOC of SA has the following Churches and Chapels, these are;
Church of Saint Nicholas
Saints Constantine and Helen
The Dormition of Virgin Mary
Saints Cosmas and Damian (Holy Chapel of St. Anargyroi at Ridleyton Greek Home for the Aged)
Church of the Holy Virgin (Annual Feast Day) This private Holy Chapel was funded by Mr John Kapiris and his family and was built on their property at Two Wells. The Chapel is dedicated to the Birth of Our Theotokos* (8th September). *The meaning of Theotokos corresponds to the Mother of Jesus Christ known in English as Virgin Mary.
Church services are conducted on each Sunday morning and all Feast Days.
For further details about church services please contact the individual church or phone our office on 8231 4307 or fax 8118 2043.
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Drink lots of water: an urban myth
Originally added on 20th January 2008
Last updated on 3rd August 2009
The Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal usually has a series of light-hearted articles in it. Last month's copy was no exception. In one of the articles, entitled "Medical myths" (Vreeman & Carroll 2007), the authors wrote "We generated a list of common medical or medicine related beliefs espoused by physicians and the general public, based on statements we had heard endorsed on multiple occasions and thought were true or might be true. We selected seven for critical review". The first myth critiqued was "People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day". Searches on Medline and Google apparently yielded no hard evidence supporting this advice. There are many sources stating that it's good health practice, but they could find no worthwhile evidence to back it up.
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The entire cast of the NBC soap opera, Days of Our Lives have been released from their contracts. (NBC via MGN Online){ }
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX/WTTE) -- It looks like the hour glass on Days of Our Lives is coming to a halt.
According to several news outlets, the entire cast of the NBC soap opera have been released from their contracts.
The daytime soap opera is set to go on an indefinite hiatus at the end of this month, according to TMZ.
TMZ said the show shoots eight months in advance which means there will be enough episodes in the bank to last through summer 2020.
If NBC chooses to renew the show, production is expected to begin in mid-2020.
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Pritchett Foundation
We are very fortunate to have this trust established by William B. and Athlyn C. Pritchett and managed by Gold Trust Company in Pittsburg, Kansas. The mission statement of the Trust is "to improve the quality of life in Pittsburg and Crawford County, Kansas by strengthening children, youth and families and by supporting projects that serve these populations." The first grants were distributed in 1995.
A $10,000 Pritchett Grant has been awarded toward construction of a Community Park. The award was given March 18, 2004 at the Gold Bank, Pittsburg, Kansas. The money will be a great start to creating a park for the children of Franklin and the entire community. Justin Stone graciously accepted the award for all the children of Franklin. He received a resounding applause after his acceptance speech. We would all like to thank Justin for accepting the award.
Joe Cukjati, Craig Stokes, Justin Stone, Phyllis Bitner
accepting 2003 award from Pritchett Foundation
Acceptance Speech - March 17, 2005
The residents of Franklin are very moved by receipt of this grant. We feel that that we are working to improve the quality of life by strengthening children, youth and families as the Pritchett’s intended. The Franklin Community Park will have a lasting impact on the entire population. The park has been the location of many community gatherings as it was previously a school then a community hall. Building the park will ensure that this area remains a place for families to gather to strengthen their ties with family and friends.
Phyllis (Liposek) Bitner, Margaret (Cumbarsano) Kennedy,
Veda (Vilet) Maxwell, Norine (Nepote) Laird
A $15,000 Challenge Grant was presented to Franklin Community Council, Inc. toward work on the community park. We are once again so honored that Gold Bank has shown the trust in our organization to grant us this very generous donation. We accept their challenge and will continue to work diligently by inspiring a high level of volunteerism within the community to see the project through. It is a very worthy asset to the community and we are committed to accomplishing the task.
While our work efforts are of the very highest standard it would not be possible to see this park become a reality without the continued support of Gold Bank and the Pritchett Foundation.
We feel this park in the center of the community is a beacon to anyone who drives through the still desolate area. As the flowers bloom, children play in the park and families gather under the shelter it is a constant reminder of the true spirit of the residents.
We genuinely thank Gold Bank and the Pritchett Foundation for the inspiring gift!
I tried to think of the appropriate words and ways to say "thank you" for this exceptional gift. No matter what I wrote it didn't seem to be adequate. It is still heart wrenching to drive through the community of Franklin but one of the bright spots is coming to the center of town and there is a beacon of hoping shining for everyone. This community park. Without funding from the Gold Bank and the Pritchett Foundation that would not have been possible. Almost daily the park is already in use and we can all be proud of our accomplishments. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Ray Hamblin, Chairman, Planning and Land Use Committee, FCCI
Tad Dunham, Gold Bank President
Craig Stokes, Chairman, FCCI
Ken Webb, Gold Bank Trust Officer
Park Construction
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Fred Ernest Wing (M)
Fred Ernest Wing died at Springfield, Hampshire, MA. Fred was born. He was the son of Benjamin Freeman Wing and (2nd wife) Mary Ellen French. Fred Ernest Wing married Mary Ellen Roland. Fred Ernest Wing was buried at Gorton-Wing Cemetery, Warwick, Kent, RI.
Children of Fred Ernest Wing and Mary Ellen Roland
Roland Wing
Herbert Wing
Fred Ernest Wing Jr.+ b. 22 Nov 1887, d. 15 Jan 1965
Fred Ernest Wing Jr. (M)
b. 22 November 1887, d. 15 January 1965
Fred was born at Providence, Providence, RI, on 22 November 1887. He was the son of Fred Ernest Wing and Mary Ellen Roland. He married Ruth Hildegard Tillman in 1907. Fred Ernest Wing Jr. died on 15 January 1965 at So. Kingstown, Washington, RI, at age 77. He was buried at cremated.
Children of Fred Ernest Wing Jr. and Ruth Hildegard Tillman
Ruth Marion Wing+ b. 25 Jun 1908, d. 3 Jun 1995
Helen Wing b. 28 Oct 1911, d. 1 Feb 1983
Howard Richmond Wing+ b. 18 Sep 1917, d. 16 May 2001
Eldred G. Wing b. 20 Sep 1921, d. b 1980
Fred H. Wing (M)
Fred was born at Dead River Plt., Somerset, Maine, on 19 February 1869. He was the son of Steward Wing and Clara A. Parsons.
Fred Hampton Wing (M)
Fred was born at IL, on 22 January 1885. He was the son of Jesse van Ness Wing and Bessie Halpin.
Fred Jonas Wing (M)
Fred was born at Half Moon, Saratoga, NY, on 27 July 1868. He was the son of Jonas Wing and Julia A. Osborn Brownell. He married Etta Josephine Wenne [Winnie] at Albany, Albany, NY, on 14 June 1886. Fred Jonas Wing died on 20 May 1941 at Freestville, NY, at age 72.
Children of Fred Jonas Wing and Etta Josephine Wenne [Winnie]
Fred Ward Beecher Wing b. 8 Mar 1887
Malcolm Clinton Wing+ b. 4 Feb 1899, d. 5 Apr 1969
Fred L. Wing (M)
Fred was born at Maine, circa 1857. He was the son of Calvin G. Wing (Jr.) and Katherine Morse Cheney.
Fred was born. He was the son of Orrin Wing and Lurania Victoria Perry.
Fred Louis Wing (M)
b. 22 October 1866, d. 30 August 1933
Fred was born at twin, Conneautville, PA, on 22 October 1866. He was the son of Elijah Wing and Julia Margaret Burgett. Fred Louis Wing married Kate Kenyon Warner, daughter of George Wallace Warner and Cornelia Coit Kenyon, before 10 October 1895. Fred Louis Wing died on 30 August 1933 at Gibsonburg, OH, at age 66.
Children of Fred Louis Wing and Kate Kenyon Warner
Wallace Elijah Wing+ b. Sep 1897, d. 19 Feb 1960
Marion Julia Wing+ b. 2 Jan 1904, d. 1995
Fred M. Wing (M)
Fred was born at Oswego, Oswego, NY, on 20 November 1859. He was the son of Charles Howell Wing and Jennie A. Lamoree.
b. between 1869 and 1870
Fred M. Wing died at shortly after married (approx 1 yr). He was born between 1869 and 1870 at 10 1880, Chatauqua, Chatauqua, NY. He was the son of Samuel R. Wing and Nancy M. Baker.
Last Edited=25 Jun 2005
b. 23 January 1876, d. 27 August 1884
Fred M. Wing was born on 23 January 1876 at St. Charles, Kane, Illinois. He was the son of Clinton Demick Wing and Margaret Wyne. Fred M. Wing died on 27 August 1884 at St. Charles, Kane, Illinois, at age 8.
Fred Mitchell Wing (M)
Fred Mitchell Wing was the son of Daniel Marshall Wing.
Fred Stevens Wing (M)
b. 24 October 1876, d. circa 1877
Fred was born at Fayette, Kennebec, Maine, on 24 October 1876. He was the son of Frederick Allen Wing and Annie Stevens French. He died at Fayette, Kennebec, Maine, circa 1877.
Fred Tucker Wing (M)
b. 25 September 1878, d. 10 February 1953
Fred was born at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, on 25 September 1878. He was the son of Charles Tucker Wing and Alice Sophronia Deno. He married Bessie Burrow at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, on 21 September 1904. Fred Tucker Wing died on 10 February 1953 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, at age 74.
Child of Fred Tucker Wing and Bessie Burrow
Mabel Tucker Wing+ b. 10 Jun 1908, d. 22 Nov 1998
Fred Walter Wing (M)
b. 22 January 1847, d. before 1915
Fred was born at Dexter, Penobscot, Maine, on 22 January 1847. He was the son of Joshua Raymond Wing and Olive Curtis Pomeroy. He died before 1915.
He married Erna Smith. Fred was born circa 1885. He was the son of Walter Wing.
Child of Fred Walter Wing and Erna Smith
Walter Albert Wing+ b. 23 Mar 1922, d. 15 Mar 1984
Fred Ward Beecher Wing (M)
Fred was born at Albany, Albany, NY, on 8 March 1887. He was the son of Fred Jonas Wing and Etta Josephine Wenne [Winnie].
Freda May Wing (F)
b. 1 August 1915, d. 15 August 1999
Freda was born at Phillips, Franklin, Maine, on 1 August 1915. She was the daughter of Ashley John Wing and Rosie Lillian Dill. She married Herbert Sewall Kelley at Farmington, Franklin, Maine, on 24 June 1939. She died at Maine, on 15 August 1999. Her body was interred on 18 August 1999 at Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, at Sunset Cemetery.
Frederic Bartlett Wing (M)
b. 23 December 1848, d. before July 1889
Frederic was born at Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, on 23 December 1848. He was the son of Samuel Spear Wing and Mary Cook. He married Elizabeth H. Harris (Pennell) at Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, on 2 November 1874. He died before July 1889.
Children of Frederic Bartlett Wing and Elizabeth H. Harris (Pennell)
Harry Lester Wing+ b. Oct 1877
Marion B. Wing b. May 1879
Frederick Wing (M)
Frederick was born at (Unknown), MO, on 16 August 1820. He was the son of Horace Benjamin Wing and Mary Perkins. He died in 1901.
Children of Frederick Wing
Austin Wing
Dr. Edgar Wing
Charles Wing
b. 4 September 1872, d. 29 March 1953
Frederick was born at Monroe Twp., Putnam Co., Ohio, on 4 September 1872. He was the son of Henry A. Wing and Mary Elizabeth Gilbert. He married Minnie Castle at (Unknown), Putnam, Ohio, in 1895. Frederick Wing died on 29 March 1953 at short illness, (Unknown), Putnam, Ohio, at age 80.
Children of Frederick Wing and Minnie Castle
Pearl Wing+ b. 24 Jan 1896, d. Dec 1986
Rufus Edgar Wing+ b. 10 Dec 1897
Ross Gilbert Wing+ b. 4 Dec 1899, d. 26 Aug 1997
Henry Sheldon Wing b. 12 Dec 1901, d. 23 Aug 1989
Charles David Wing+ b. 13 Mar 1904, d. 2 Aug 1987
(Mary) Esther Wing b. 26 Jun 1906, d. 28 Dec 2000
Ralph Frederic Wing+ b. 20 Jul 1909, d. 26 Nov 1996
Cloyd Burton Wing+ b. 29 Mar 1914, d. 4 Jan 1996
b. 27 March 1822, d. before 1904
Frederick Wing married Augustus Root. Frederick was born at Champlain, Clinton, NY, on 27 March 1822. He was the son of Tyler Ward Wing and Martha Rogers. He died before 1904.
Child of Frederick Wing and Augustus Root
Frederick T. Wing+ b. 1852, d. 14 Dec 1944
b. 11 June 1871, d. after 1930
Frederick was born at near Schoolcraft, MI, on 11 June 1871. He was the son of George Washington Wing and Malvina Vreeland. He died after 1930.
b. 21 April 1855, d. 23 January 1947
Frederick was born at New York, on 21 April 1855. He was the son of Henry Wing and Ruth Bowen Dean. Frederick Wing died on 23 January 1947 at (Unknown), San Mateo, California, at age 91.
Last Edited=8 Oct 2005
Frederick Wing was born between 1852 and 1853 at WI. He was the son of Samuel Wing and Fidelia Richmond.
b. between 1871 and 1872, d. between 1940 and 1949
Frederick Wing was born between 1871 and 1872 at poss. San Joaquin, CA. He was the son of Chillingsworth Crosby Wing. Frederick Wing died between 1940 and 1949 at Ontario, CA.
Frederick Wing was born between 1845 and 1846 at 4 1850, of Athens, Somerset, Maine. He was the son of Joel Wing Jr. and (1st wife) Margaret Bunker.
b. circa January 1850
Frederick Wing was born circa January 1850 at 6/12 1850 10 1860 21 1870 30 1880, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. He was the son of Jacob Wing and Sarah J. (Unknown).
Child of Frederick Wing
[poss.] Capt. Jacob Wing+ b. 1781
Frederick Wing was born between 1866 and 1867 at 3 1870, New York. He was the son of Samuel Wing and Mary Malcolm.
Capt. Frederick A. Wing (M)
Frederick was born at Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts, on 13 January 1812. He was the son of Barnabas Wing and Abigail Gifford. He married Eliza Hicks at Westport, Bristol, MA, on 16 January 1833. Capt. Frederick A. Wing was buried at Westport Point Cemetery, Westport, Bristol, MA.
Child of Capt. Frederick A. Wing and Eliza Hicks
Eliza H. Wing b. 21 Dec 1847
Frederick Allen Wing (M)
b. 11 May 1852, d. 9 October 1924
Frederick was born at Fayette, Kennebec, Maine, on 11 May 1852. He was the son of John Allen Wing and Lucretia Eaton French. He married Annie Stevens French at Chesterville, Franklin, Maine, on 18 November 1875. He died at Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, on 9 October 1924.
Children of Frederick Allen Wing and Annie Stevens French
Capt. Frank Everett Wing+ b. 24 Oct 1876, d. 24 May 1963
Fred Stevens Wing b. 24 Oct 1876, d. c 1877
John Edwin Wing+ b. 12 Nov 1877, d. 2 Apr 1962
Merle Wing b. 14 Nov 1878, d. 14 Nov 1879
Florence Ethel Wing+ b. 19 Mar 1882, d. a 1956
Frederick Augustus Wing (M)
b. 8 January 1853, d. 13 September 1947
Frederick was born at Streetsboro, Ohio, on 8 January 1853. He was the son of Benjamin A. Wing and Louisa Mason. He married Eva Amelia Boies at Hudson, Michigan, on 28 October 1875. He died on 13 September 1947. Frederick Augustus Wing was buried at Maple Grove Cemetery, Hudson, Lenawee, MI.
Children of Frederick Augustus Wing and Eva Amelia Boies
John Boies Wing b. 11 May 1879, d. 30 May 1909
[poss. dau] Baby Wing b. 11 May 1879?, d. 15 May 1879
Clara Louise Wing+ b. 26 Jul 1881, d. 7 Jan 1964
b. 12 September 1855, d. 8 January 1925
Frederick was born at Mattawamkeag, Maine, on 12 September 1855. He was the son of Henry Stanwood Wing and Hannah Elizabeth Smith. Frederick Augustus Wing died on 8 January 1925 at age 69.
Child of Frederick Augustus Wing
Albert H. Wing
Frederick was born. He was the son of John Wing and Abigail Walker.
Frederick Austin Wing (M)
b. 24 April 1885, d. 16 December 1956
Frederick was born at Miller City, Putnam, Ohio, on 24 April 1885. He was the son of Henry Wing and Adelia Wilhelmina Carver. He married Caroline Elizabeth Frankart at Miller City, Putnam, Ohio, on 5 August 1905. He died at Bellevue, Sandusky, Ohio, on 16 December 1956.
Children of Frederick Austin Wing and Caroline Elizabeth Frankart
Ira Merle Wing b. 12 Nov 1905, d. 23 Jul 1923
Frank Leroy Wing+ b. 10 Aug 1907, d. 15 Jul 1998
Ethel Mae Wing+ b. 24 Jun 1909, d. 2 Nov 1979
Clarence Frederick Wing+ b. 11 Apr 1911, d. 17 Mar 1968
Arthur Ray Wing+ b. 31 Oct 1912, d. 7 Jun 1942
Child of Frederick Austin Wing and Fern Lucille Williams
Frederick Harold Wing+ b. 16 May 1927, d. 1 Nov 1995
Frederick Boutelle Wing (M)
Frederick Boutelle Wing was born on 15 December 1886 at Waterville, Kennebec, Maine. He was the son of Frederick Burt Wing and Ada May Crosby.
Frederick Boutelle Wing married Freida Marback. Frederick Boutelle Wing was born on 29 November 1894 at San Juan Bautista, California. He was the son of Albert Burleigh Wing and Susie May Sherwood.
Frederick Burt Wing (M)
b. 25 February 1848, d. 19 March 1894
Frederick was born at Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, on 25 February 1848. He was the son of Daniel Ripley Wing and Ann Elizabeth Burleigh. Frederick Burt Wing married Ada May Crosby, daughter of Albert Crosby and Sarah Gage Jerrard, on 10 June 1880 at Waterville, Kennebec, Maine. Frederick Burt Wing died on 19 March 1894 at Newport, Maine, at age 46.
Children of Frederick Burt Wing and Ada May Crosby
Frederick Boutelle Wing b. 15 Dec 1886
Margaret Crosby Wing+ b. 14 Jun 1891
Frederick E. Wing (M)
Frederick was born on 4 February 1884. He was the son of William Bond Wing and Georgiana Brown.
Frederick Eugene Wing (M)
b. 5 March 1850, d. 22 December 1946
Frederick was born at Belvidere, Boone, IL, on 5 March 1850. He was the son of Joseph Vincent Wing and Sarah Adelia Johnson. He married Sarah Ann Lawrie at Princeton, Bureau, IL, on 30 March 1871. He died at Omaha, NE, on 22 December 1946.
Children of Frederick Eugene Wing and Sarah Ann Lawrie
Charles Albert Wing b. 19 Nov 1871, d. 1926
Lila P. Wing b. 26 Aug 1873, d. 14 Nov 1889
Zada Wing b. 23 Aug 1875, d. 1898
Frederick Lawrie Wing+ b. 17 Dec 1878, d. 22 Jan 1972
Vincent Johnson Wing+ b. 25 Oct 1882, d. 31 Jul 1971
Frederick F. Wing (M)
Frederick was born. He was the son of Henry Wing and Sarah Barber.
b. 29 October 1881, d. 4 March 1952
Frederick F. Wing was married (an unknown value) times. He was born on 29 October 1881 at Ontario. He was the son of Allan Wing and Mary Anne Thompson. Frederick F. Wing died on 4 March 1952 at age 70.
Frederick Ferdinand Wing (M)
Frederick was born at Dublin, Franklin, OH, on 1 December 1838. He was the son of Jesse Wing and Belinda Thankful Sprague. He married Amanda E. Boord on 29 January 1861. He married Amelia Wittich on 10 June 1878. He died at Dublin, Franklin, OH, on 20 February 1917. Frederick Ferdinand Wing was buried at Dublin Cemetery, Dublin, Franklin, OH.
Children of Frederick Ferdinand Wing and Amanda E. Boord
Charles Melville Wing+ b. 29 Jan 1861, d. 1 Jan 1909
Iva Sophia Wing+ b. 20 Aug 1873, d. b 1969
Children of Frederick Ferdinand Wing and Amelia Wittich
Celinda Lucille Wing+ b. 10 Jun 1878, d. 17 Jan 1964
George Wittich Wing+ b. 22 Dec 1880
b. 14 November 1819, d. 1880
Frederick was born at Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, on 14 November 1819. He was the son of Judah Wing and Rebecca Wing. He married Elizabeth Madge Tozer at of Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, on 23 January 1841. He died at Worthington, OH, in 1880.
Children of Frederick Ferdinand Wing and Elizabeth Madge Tozer
Helen Elizabeth Wing+ b. 9 Feb 1841
William Tozer Wing+ b. 13 Mar 1844, d. 20 Nov 1910
Henry Wing+ b. 1846
Sarah Josephine Wing+ b. 21 Mar 1848, d. 1890
Eugene Clifford Wing b. 26 Feb 1850, d. 1861
Herbert Clarence Wing b. 1852, d. b 1911
Edgar Theodore Wing b. 1854, d. 1861
Frederick H. Wing (M)
Frederick H. Wing was born on 4 April 1867 at Louisville, New York. He was the son of Horace H. Wing and Sarah L. Thomas.
Frederick Harrison Wing (M)
b. 6 April 1876, d. 19 December 1935
Frederick Harrison Wing was buried at Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine. Frederick was born at Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, on 6 April 1876. He was the son of Capt. Francis Harrison Wing and Mary Ellen Smith. Frederick Harrison Wing married Mabel Harriett Waltz, daughter of Osgood Waltz and Jennie Britt, on 20 August 1907. Frederick Harrison Wing died on 19 December 1935 at Togus, Kennebec, Maine, at age 59.
Children of Frederick Harrison Wing and Mabel Harriett Waltz
Francis Harrison Wing
Frederick Osgood Wing+ b. 13 Dec 1910, d. 19 Sep 1984
Frederick Henry Wing (M)
b. 14 May 1867, d. 13 January 1942
Frederick was born at Ottawa, Grundy, IL, on 14 May 1867. He was the son of Seth Caldwell Wing and Mary Eliza Howe. He married Leona Elizabeth Hazel at Newton, Harvey, KS, on 22 December 1889. Frederick Henry Wing married Sarah Josephine Fenter-Youngquist on 31 August 1904 at Newton, Harvey, KS. He died at Newton, Harvey, KS, on 13 January 1942.
Children of Frederick Henry Wing and Leona Elizabeth Hazel
Edna May Wing b. Aug 1890, d. 14 Nov 1962
Frederick Herbert Wing Jr. b. 28 Jan 1893, d. 11 Sep 1929
Maude S. Wing b. Aug 1894
Richard Elisha Wing+ b. 15 Nov 1898, d. 1 Jan 1970
Frederick Herbert Wing Jr. (M)
b. 28 January 1893, d. 11 September 1929
Frederick Herbert Wing Jr. was born on 28 January 1893 at Newton, Harvey, KS. He was the son of Frederick Henry Wing and Leona Elizabeth Hazel. Frederick Herbert Wing Jr. married Anna Alice Woodward on 18 April 1922 at Kansas City, Wyandotte, KAS. Frederick Herbert Wing Jr. died on 11 September 1929 at Wichita, Sedgwick, KS, at age 36.
Frederick Hopkins Wing (M)
b. 11 December 1830, d. 2 February 1911
Frederick was born at Charlemont, Franklin, MA, on 11 December 1830. He was the son of Gulielmus Wing and Diantha Smith. He married Amelia Kempshall on 6 October 1859. He died at Brooklyn, Kings, NY, on 2 February 1911.
Children of Frederick Hopkins Wing and Amelia Kempshall
Dr. Ralph Kempshall Wing+ b. 10 Apr 1863
Frederick Lincoln Wing+ b. 30 Aug 1866
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KJZZ Home
Willow Fire In Northwestern Arizona Causes Evacuations
By Al Macias, Associated Press, Katherine Fritcke
Published: Monday, August 10, 2015 - 7:53am
Updated: Monday, August 10, 2015 - 4:58pm
(Photo courtesy of InciWeb)
Map of Willow Fire in Arizona.
The Willow Fire, a brush fire in northwest Arizona, has burned over 6,700 acres. Firefighters said some homes and structures have been destroyed.
The fire broke out about 30 miles southeast of Bullhead City on Saturday morning. The blaze is under investigation, but there was lightning in the area when the fire started.
Delores Garcia with the Bureau of Land Management said Monday fire officials are confident a large portion of the 1,000 evacuated households in the area will soon be able to return home.
“Some of the evacuations will be lifted. So, at least half of what we’ve got evacuated should be able to return to their homes," Garcia said.
Garcia said there are still 150 homes whose owners will still not be allowed to return.
Hundreds of people have been displaced, and many of those homes held livestock. Buster Johnson is the Mohave County Supervisor from the district three which covers the burning area. He said when it comes to housing livestock, help has come from across state lines.
“People have a lot of animals and people are offering places to keep their horses at. Needles, Calif. Set up an area over there, at their fairgrounds, for animal," said Johnson.
The Western Arizona Humane Society also set up a shelter for smaller animals. Johnson said the outpouring of support from around the region has not gone unnoticed.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Land Management said the fire became aggressive Saturday due to stiff winds and dense vegetation. Crews built barriers between the blaze and homes and used airplanes to drop retardant.
The Mohave County Sheriff’s Department, along with Mohave County Emergency Management, ordered mandatory evacuations Saturday for half a dozen small communities and subdivisions near the fire on Saturday. About 850 homes were evacuated.
The Red Cross has set up an emergency shelter at an elementary school in the area for several hundred residents who had to be evacuated.
Updated 8/10/2015 at 1:15 p.m.
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Overlooking the Ocmulgee River in the city of Macon (Bibb County), Georgia is one of the most beautiful buildings in the entire state of Georgia.
During the 1902 session of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, construction plans were approved and bids accepted for the erection of the Masonic Home on the one hundred acres of land donated to the Grand Lodge of Georgia by the late Senator Augustas O. Bacon.
Most Worshipful Brother Max Meyerhardt, Grand Master of Masons in Georgia, laid the cornerstone in July, 1903 and construction of the Home was finally completed in 1904 at a total cost of $22,232.00. The home was dedicated during the 1904 session of the Grand Lodge of Georgia and the first residents, consisting of adults as well as children, were accepted in 1905.
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Campus News Briefing
Campus News Briefing: Goodbye Glyn, Tribunal, Dancing
Sanchari Mondal
Click here to stay up to date with campus news and receive Farrago‘s news briefings delivered to your inbox every fortnight.
Professor Duncan Maskell has now commenced his term as the University’s vice-chancellor, succeeding Glyn Davis who served in the role for nearly 14 years. Maskell was formerly the senior pro-vice-chancellor (planning and resources) at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Davis will join Australia National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy.
Tribunal throws out appeal
The University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) electoral tribunal rejected More!’s appeal for a re-election for the general secretariat and women’s office. The appeal made allegations against the returning officers over defective conduct of the election.
New dean of arts
Professor Russell Goulbourne has been appointed as the University’s new dean of arts, commencing his term in January 2019. Goulbourne, who has previously served as the dean of arts at King’s College London, will replace Professor Denise Varney.
Rar-right figures on campus
On 7 September, three right-wing figures, one of whom was wearing a shirt which read “it’s okay to be white”, came onto the Parkville campus claiming to be interviewing students about the recent Liberal Party leadership spill. The trio was confronted by students and staff before leaving the campus.
UniMelb number one in Aus
The University of Melbourne has retained its ranking as the number one university in Australia in the Times Higher Education rankings. UniMelb has ranked 32nd in the world.
Freya dances for 24 hours
UniMelb student Freya McGrath danced for 24 hours as part of her project for Melbourne Fringe Festival. SHe originally performed the project as part of Mudfest last year, UMSU’s biennial creative arts festival.
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RUSS EMANUEL
(Director)
Originally from San Francisco, Russ grew up in both Japan and the United States, garnering an international viewpoint of the world throughout his childhood. After graduating from the University of Southern California to study Cinema-Television, International Relations and Japanese, and gaining more production experience at the UCLA Extension Program, he founded Russem Productions in 2002 to promote his shorts films including HER KNIGHT (2003) and the award-winning GIRL WITH GUN (2005). He also produced several shorts including MAVET (2004), the zombie-flick THE DIARY (2004), and most recently vampire film PERFECT RED (2006). Presently, P.J. and CHASING THE GREEN marks Emanuel's first two forays into feature filmmaking.
HOWARD NASH
(Producer)
Acting since the late 1970s, Howard Nash starred in numerous independent films, notably THE MEETING in 2004. However, he is best known as an independent filmmaker, having co-produced the cult film CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT for Columbia Tri-Star in 1991. He also produced SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (MTI, 2002), which is available in most video stores throughout the US and Canada. In 2005, he completed TRACKS (where he appears in a cameo alongside CHASING THE GREEN actor Chris Gunn), which also starred John Heard, along with Ice-T. He also produced the television special FELLICIANO, THE LEGEND (for PBS) starring the legendary singer, Jose Feliciano, and has produced promotional videos for the Beijing Circus, Cirque du Soleil, and the original members of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO II). Most recently, he produced/starred in Russ Emanuel's P.J.
CRAIG FRANKEL
(Executive Producer, Story/Screenplay)
Residing in Texas, Craig Frankel has always been interested in films. CHASING THE GREEN marks his second foray into feature filmmaking, his first being Russ Emanuel's P.J.. He also has cameos in both films.
RICHARD SPITALERI
(Associate Producer)
Living in New York, Richard Spitaleri worked with Howard Nash on early stages on CHASING THE GREEN (2008) thereby making it possible to be filmed. He also worked with Howard Nash on Russ Emanuel's P.J. (2007).
EMILIO IASIELLO
(Screenplay)
Currently residing in Washington D.C., Emilio Iasiello is originally a political speechwriter. He recently turned to screenwriting, writing the script for the feature film SAINT CHRISTOPHER (2002). Due to this success, Howard Nash approached him about writing the screenplays for both P.J. and CHASING THE GREEN.
SANDY WEISER
(Line Producer/
Unit Production Manager)
Sandy Weiser is a veteran in the industry. He's worked on numerous films as a line producer/unit production manager, including TRACKS (2005) with producer Howard Nash and actor Chris Gunn.
SETH MELNICK
(Director of Photography)
Seth Melnick is an accomplished Director of Photography and a business-oriented producer. Originally a technical consultant he managed projects with budgets of several million dollars and dozens of people such as Iwon.com and the first Internet ISP in Brazil, IG.com. Seth co-created SLM Production Group LLC with Lauzanne Nel as a venue to produce original and provocative works. As a production company they have been involved in the production of over a dozen feature films, many shorts, videos, trailers and animations. They are equipped to bring project from concept through pre-production, principle photography, editing, and other post-production to a completed product. He is currently deep into post-production on AMERICAN STANDARD, a clever comedy based on a never been done before concept. He is one of the producers and the director of photography for the project. He also recently was the Director of Photography for Russ Emanuel's first feature film, P.J.
SERGEO LEVITAS
(Production Designer)
Currently residing in New York City, Sergeo Levitas brings his own artistic style to every film he works on including the feature film AMERICAN STANDARD (2007), along with Director of Photography Seth Melnick. He also was production designer on the shorts EUTHANASIA (2005) and MUTATIONS (2006), and the features ALL SCREWED UP (2007) and DOORMAN (2007).
LISA FAIBISH
(Costume Designer)
Lisa Faibish, a native of San Francisco, has currently been residing in NYC for the last 10 years. She also is a costume historian and a stylist, having worked at The Costume Institute and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for 8 years. Along with this film, she worked with Russ Emanuel on his first feature P.J. (2007).
LAUZANNE NEL
(Key Makeup Artist)
Residing in New York, Lauzanne Nel has worked on many productions as a makeup artist. Her credits include: STANLEY CUBA (2006), SHOCKED JOCK (2006), PLASTERHEAD (2006), and THE SHANGHAI HOTEL (2006). Also, along with Seth Melnick, she is a co-founder of SLM Group LLC as a venue to produce original and provocative works including a film she also produced, AMERICAN STANDARD, which is currently in post-production. She also was the key makeup artist on Russ Emanuel's first feature film P.J. as well as having a cameo in it as the Pregnant Woman.
ANDREW PROKOPENKO
(Production Sound Mixer)
Living in New York, Andrew Prokopenko has worked on many films as a sound mixer including the short films PILLS (2005), LOVE AND/OR LAID (2006), and 5000 (2007), and the feature films INNER RAGE (2006), THE SPEED OF LIFE (2007), and the upcoming PLAQUE TOWN (2009).
ZEYNEP OGUZ CATAL
(Key Gaffer)
From Turkey, Zeynep Oguz Catal has worked in New York on many films in the Lighting and Camera departments. Her gaffer credits include: SEA OF DUST (2006), LET THEM CHIRP AWHILE (2007), and KARMA CALLING (2007). Her assistant camera credits include: SUBTERFUGE (1996) and COMPLETELY TOTALLY UTTERLY (2001). Along with this film, she worked with Russ Emanuel on his first feature P.J.
LUIS ARMADA
(Key Grip)
Residing in New York, Luis Armada's camera department credits in numerous roles include: MANITO (2002), CRY FUNNY HAPPY (2003), DEPRIVATION (2003), UNKNOWN SOLDIER (2004), and the upcoming ...AROUND (2008).
AILEEN TAYLOR
(First Assistant Camera)
Residing in New York, Aileen Taylor works in the camera department, specializing in focus pulling, having worked on numerous films with Director of Photography Seth Melnick, including Russ Emanuel's P.J. and CHASING THE GREEN.
KEN GREENBLATT
(Location Manager)
Residing in New York, Ken Greenblatt is a veteran in the industry. His numerous credits include: SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY (1998) as associate producer, FLUSHED (1999) as producer, ACTS OF WORSHIP (2001) as associate producer, THIS THING OF OURS (2003) as co-producer, DESTINATION FAME (2004) as line producer, MARY (2005) as location manager (New York), PARZANIA (2005) as executive producer, and PARAISO TRAVEL (2007) as unit production manager (New York).
MICHAEL E. GOODIN
(First Assistant Director)
Mr. Goodin is a graduate of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts where he studied drama and directing. Former Production Manager of the Little Theatre of Manchester, he produced several shows including JEKYLL AND HYDE, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS and ON GOLDEN POND. He currently lives in New York City where he works as a Production Coordinator/Unit Production Manager/Assistant Director in film and television. Past onstage credits include Tom in NOISES OFF, Adam in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ABRIDGED and Spider in JEKYLL AND HYDE. Past Assistant Director credits include the short film PROOF OF BIRTH and the feature film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS.
ZAIRI MALCOLM
(Script Supervisor)
Residing in New York, Zairi Malcolm has been working in the industry for several years beginning with the feature film DUMMY (2002) as a wardrobe intern. Multifaceted, she has worked in the wardrobe and art departments, and as a script supervisor. Her credits as a scrpt supervisor include the short film RHYME ANIMAL (2007), and the features WITCHES' NIGHT (2007), and SORDID THINGS (2007).
DON ELMENDORF
(Still Photographer)
Residing in Westchester, New York, Don Elmendorf is an avid photographer. His website is at: www.donelmendorf.com. CHASING THE GREEN marks his first foray into still photography for films. He is also a motorcycle enthusiast, making a cameo in CHASING THE GREEN as one of the motorcycle riders.
JOSEPH NOTOVITZ
Residing in New York, Joseph Notovitz is a professional poster artist and still photographer. He is also the founder of Notovitz Communications, Inc. (his company provided post-production services for SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (2002). He also worked as a still photographer and poster artist on Russ Emanuel's first feature film P.J. (2007), as well has having a cameo as the Homeless Dad in the first film.
(Documentarian)
An award winning actor, director and producer of such short films as THE INERMISSION MAN (2004) and SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD (2006), CHASING THE GREEN marks Scott's second foray into documentary filmmaking, Russ Emanuel's P.J. being his first. He lives and produces films from his home in Northern California, with several projects on the horizon including his latest short concept BLINK.
RYAN HURST
(Post-Production Supervisor)
Ryan D. Hurst (born June 19, 1976) is an American actor who perhaps most notably starred as Gerry Bertier, an All-American linebacker in Disney's REMEMBER THE TITANS and as Alison's brother, Michael in the show MEDIUM. He also played the role of doofus football player Lump Hudson in THE LADYKILLERS, appeared in the movie WE WERE SOLDIERS as Sgt. Savage, and starred in the TNT show WANTED. Hurst was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Candy Kaniecki, an acting coach, and Rick Hurst, an actor. Hurst attended the Santa Monica High School. He recently formed his production company Fast Shoes, which is handling post-production on CHASING THE GREEN (2008).
MOLLY COOKSON
Living in Los Angeles, Molly Cookson works for Ryan Hurst's production company Fast Shoes, which is handling post-production on CHASING THE GREEN (2008).
Living in Los Angeles, Vijay Kumar works for Ryan Hurst's production company Fast Shoes, which is handling post-production on CHASING THE GREEN (2008).
EMILE HARIS
(Editor)
A graduate in both Writing and Film from Long Beach State, it's all about making movies for this enthusiastic individual. Haris, together with Yos Park produced the sci-fi short FRAKIE DIED (2000), which they put under their production company, Atomicgum Productions. Next, he teamed up with USC graduate Russ Emanuel and created HER KNIGHT (2003), a contemporary romance with strong fantastical as well as historical elements. His editing credits include: MAVET (2004) which he also wrote/directed, and most recently GIRL WITH GUN (2005), PERFECT RED (2006), and P.J. (2007).
JOSH SUMMERS
Josh started his editing career 10 years ago by working for a small independent network station in Phoenix, run by the Phoenix Fire Department. After work, Josh would spend hours working and refining his skills on their Avid editing system. There he learned the in’s and out’s of editing and creating music videos, learning how to capture and create dynamic video content. From this point, Josh took his skill and started his own business at the age of 19 creating industrial videos for local companies in Salt Lake City and California. Over the next 6 years he expanded his clientele over the region focusing on editing as well as took part in directing a project for AT&T wireless. His drive for filmmaking never left him, and he soon realized that he needed to make the move to California. While living here, Josh continued to grow his business, working commercially with such clients as CASINO MORONGO, THE SHRINE AUDITORIUM, LEIGH ADAMS, and THE KEYCLUB HOLLYWOOD.
THOMAS L. WENTWORTH
Originally from Tennessee and residing in Los Angeles, Thomas L. Wentworth is a gifted artist. Not only has he produced Josh and Cole Summers' first short film SPOONFED, but he also co-edited CHASING THE GREEN.
NEIL ARGO
(Composer)
Classically trained, Neil Argo's dramatic and provocative scores have been heard all over the world. From the TV series WILD AMERICA, THE NEW MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, and BEVERLY HILLS 90210 among others, he has composed for many noteworthy projects. More recently, he teamed up with director Russ Emanuel, composing scores for his films HER KNIGHT, GIRL WITH GUN, and P.J. (which he and Emanuel both shared a Bronze Music For Excellence Award at the Park City Film Music Festival). He also won 2 Emmy awards for the SURVIVORS OF THE SKELETON COAST National Geographic episode and A COMMUNITY OF CARING documentary for the Directors Guild of America.
As a composer and conductor, Jason Livesay, along with his twin brother Nolan, is currently scoring feature films, writing commissioned works, and musical directing and conducting theatrical productions. They both hold conducting positions with the Golden State Pops Orchestra, and have composed for Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, MGM, Warner Brothers, FoxFaith Films, Nickelodeon, CBS, and MTV, earning Gold Classic Telly Awards for their work in television. They have premiered original concert works with the Lake Avenue Chamber Orchestra, the Sonus Quartet, the Golden State Pops Orchestra, the APU Symphony Orchestra, and the Michael Skidgel Singers. Among over 40 film and television credits, recent projects include the HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE DVD video game, the original score for the feature film western BOUNTY, original music for the film series 36 PARABLES, original music for the award-winning documentary DEAR FRANCIS, and additional music arranging and orchestration for J.A.C. Redford's epic score for the feature film ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING starring Peter O'Toole.
COLE SUMMERS
(VFX Supervisor,
Poster Artist)
Residing in Los Angeles with his brother Josh (who is the CHASING THE GREEN co-editor), Cole Summers is a talented artist - using his expertise to complete the visual effects required and poster art. He also recently co-directed his first film (with his brother Josh), the short film SPOONFED.
MICHELLE GARUIK
(Post Sound Mixer)
Residing in Los Angeles, Michelle Garuik is an experienced sound mixer. Working in post sound since 1988, her credits include: NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES (2000), TALES FROM BEYOND (2004), and STONE & ED (2008).
SEAN FAHIMIAN
(Final Sound Mixer)
As a Re-recoding Mixer and Editor with 13 years of experience in Post Production and Production industry working on Reality TV, Features, Television, Trailers, Music, On-Air Promo's, Radio, and DVD Authoring. Providing clients with more and with better than they may expect almost anywhere else. Southern California-based audio post Production Company for film, television, and multimedia. On the leading edge of technology which is why Sound Design Digital Post clients enjoy the complete scope of superior sound prep, pre-lay and mixing services-All under one roof. Benefiting from an extensive sound effects library, Foley, ADR, Music mixing, Music editing. Every Client is assured of receiving personal service that is dedicated and responsive all the way through in a friendly client oriented studio with free DSL Service and gourmet coffee. He previously worked with Russ Emanuel on GIRL WITH GUN (2005) - which was nominated for Best Sound, PERFECT RED (2007), and P.J. (2007).
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Leamington's Highbury Canco tripled business, renews deal with Heinz
Highbury Canco has renewed a multi-year agreement with Kraft Heinz Canada and has tripled business since forming months after the November 2013 Heinz closure announcement
“I think we’ve by far exceeded our expectations in terms of growth, in terms of what we could have dreamed of five years ago, to think that we’ve tripled in size,” Sam Diab, President and CEO of Highbury Canco, said Thursday. “We’re on a good trajectory and we just want to keep that going.”
The focus was on survival when a consortium of investors formed Highbury Canco, bought the Leamington plant, and secured a five-year agreement to make Heinz products in 2014, said Diab, who is one of four owners.
A second, multi-year agreement was announced this week and was said to be worth about $1 billion in the retail value of the products.
In 2014, Highbury Canco started with 250 employees. With seasonal workers the plant employs more than 800 people and by the end of the tomato harvest in October Diab expects there will be 650 full-time workers. That’s edging closer to the more than 700 people Heinz employed when it announced the plant would close. [ Read More ]
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West Brom’s Hegazi good for recovery after surgery
Mahmoud Sheleib, Thursday 25 Jul 2019
The former Ahly player was bought by West Bromwich Albion in January 2018
Egypt and West Bromwich defender Ahmed Hegazi underwent surgery on his ankle Wednesday.
The 28-year-old defender said on his Instagram account Thursday that the surgery, which was postponed owing to last season's matches with the club and the national team, was successful and he will be ready for next season soon.
Hegazi joined West Bromwich Albion, which played in the English Premier League, on a loan deal coming from Ahly in July 2017, before the English team bought Hegazi in January 2018.
The former Ahly player won with the Egyptian giants two league titles, an Egyptian Cup, and an Egyptian Super Cup, after appearing in the red jersey in 56 matches.
Meanwhile, the national team defender played 85 matches and scored three goals with Albion, which plays in EFL Championship, the second-highest overall in the English football league system after the Premier League.
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Today I'm pleased to be a brief stopover on Steve Bein's 'Daughter of the Sword' blog tour (a book that I'm into pretty much as we speak, review next week I reckon). Here's the blurb if you haven't come across this book already...
Mariko Oshiro is not your average Tokyo cop. As the only female detective in the city’s most elite police unit, she has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. While she wants to track down a rumored cocaine shipment, he gives her the least promising case possible. But the case—the attempted theft of an old samurai sword—proves more dangerous than anyone on the force could have imagined.
The owner of the sword, Professor Yasuo Yamada, says it was crafted by the legendary Master Inazuma, a sword smith whose blades are rumored to have magical qualities. The man trying to steal it already owns another Inazuma—one whose deadly power eventually comes to control all who wield it. Or so says Yamada, and though he has studied swords and swordsmanship all his life, Mariko isn’t convinced.
But Mariko’s skepticism hardly matters. Her investigation has put her on a collision course with a curse centuries old and as bloodthirsty as ever. She is only the latest in a long line of warriors and soldiers to confront this power, and even the sword she learns to wield could turn against her.
Like I said, look out for my review next week but here's Steve now with 'The Fighter in the Writer (Part One)'...
They say you should write what you know, and I guess it’s fair to say I know fighting. I’ve been in the martial arts for about twenty years, earning black belts in a couple of arts and dabbling in about two dozen others. So with all of that under my belt—white, at the moment; I’ve returned to Brazilian Jiujitsu after many years off the mat—I want say a bit about what all the training has done for me as a writer.
There are some obvious benefits. Daughter of the Sword is about—duh—swords, and since I spent a little time studying kendō, iaidō, and Florentine sword fighting, I also have a sword rack in my basement. It’s handy to have a katana or two in your house when you need to know just how much space your samurai character has to swing in an average bedroom.
More important is the experience itself: not just the techniques but the feel of the sword’s weight in your hands. Writers can try to fake it, or else they can go out and do some research—as I needed to do, for example, when it came to my police detective’s pistol work. I think readers can tell when you’re faking it, so I made sure I got to spend some time with cops shooting pistols. (It really helps when one of your martial arts buddies is also a range officer.)
But that stuff only helps when writing about the weapons themselves. Martial arts have helped me write plenty of pages without fight scenes, because it turns out earning a black belt and getting published have a lot more in common than you might think (and certainly more than I’d ever expected).
First and foremost is simple pain tolerance. Everyone knows writing demands a certain degree of stick-to-it-iveness, but before I started this game I didn’t really understand how much of that was discipline and how much of it was the sheer refusal to acknowledge you’ve been hurt.
I got a very strange piece of luck right out of the gate: the first story I ever submitted was a winner in the Writers of the Future contest. Because of that, I got the idea that getting stories accepted was normal. It was only afterward that I discovered just how many rejection letters I would collect before publishing my next short story. I’ve got enough of them now to wallpaper my office.
A natural inclination for a lot of writers is to take each one of those rejections like a kick in the crotch. Fortunately for me, my best friends used to kick me in the crotch on a weekly basis. For years. I even paid money for the privilege. It’s not the sort of thing most guys are thankful for, but I’ll tell you this: rejection letters ain’t so bad after that.
Editors will beat you up in this game. Critics will too. The trick, to quote Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, is not minding that it hurts. And full-contact fighting will teach you that trick lickety-split.
Cheers Steve :o)
If you're following Steve's tour (or want to catch up), here is where he has been and where he will be over the next few days,
Oct 2: http://underthecoversbookblog.blogspot.com/
Oct 3: http://www.graspingforthewind.com/
Oct 5: http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/
Oct 8: http://www.abookobsession.com/
Oct 9: http://qwillery.blogspot.com/
Oct 10: http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nor/
Oct 11: http://allthingsuf.com/
Oct 12: http://goldiloxandthethreeweres.blogspot.com/
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Hey, I like this guy! The fact that he's studied some of those sword fighting styles is most impressive. The plot sounds pretty good too. Thanks for the heads up, I might check it out.
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Mr. Brian Auringer, 65, passed away peacefully with family by his side on October 02, 2017. Brian was the first baby born in the new Sioux Lookout Hospital on June 08, 1952. In 1981, he met his future wife Rose Callewaert and they were married for over 27 years.
With heavy hearts, we sadly announce the sudden passing of Arthur Charles Kirk on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at the age of 87 years. He was a wonderful husband, strong and caring father, loving grandfather and true friend to all who knew him. He was best of friends with his brother Jerry. Click to Read Full Obituary.
Edna Henry It is with heavy hearts that the family of Edna Margarite Henry announce her peaceful passing at St. Joseph's Hospital with family by her side. She was born May 7, 1925 to James & Anne Kurlick in Wroxton, Saskatchewan.
Mr. Douglas Patrick O'Connor, age 59 years, resident of Thunder Bay, passed away unexpectedly at Silver Mountain, Ontario on June 1, 2017. Doug was born in Port Arthur on October 27, 1957 to Dennis and Velma O'Connor. He was raised in Port Arthur, and attended St. Margaret's School and Hillcrest High School. Click for full Obituary.
Edward (Ted) William Holseth passed away on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at St. Joseph's Hospital. Ted was born on March 19th, 1948 in Port Arthur and lived his entire life in Thunder Bay. He attended Balsam Street Public School, Hillcrest High School and Confederation College.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert John Meyer on Friday October 28, 2016, with his family by his side. Rob was born on May 21, 1961. He is the son of Berna and the lat Arthur Meyer. After graduating from Confederation College in Electronics Engineering Technology, Rob worked in communications at the MNR for 10 years.
Ms. Jutta Schlingmann, 61 years, resident of Thunder Bay, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. She was born to the late Lisbeth Prade and Gerhard Schlingmann, March 20, 1955, in Minden, Germany. Always one to think of others, Jutta spent much of her time making quilts or other homemade gifts to give to family and friends and their children.
It is with profound sadness that the family of Mr. Clifford Louis Johnson announce his passing April 18th, 2016 at St. Joseph's Hospice after a long illness which he fought courageously to the end. He is survived by his loving wife Susan (Ostrom) Johnson of 44 years, sons Len Johnson and Steven (Yvonne) Johnson, as well as twin brother Ron Johnson.
Derrick Jason Zale, age 51, a resident of Thunder Bay, Ontario, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, April 8, 2016 with his family by his side. Derrick showed incredible strength and courage during his 14-month battle with cancer. Derrick met the love of his life, Shirley on Oct 25, 1986. They spent 30 wonderful years together.
Donald Roger Latta, aged 69, passed away peacefully, closing his beautiful blue eyes, with his family by his side at St. Joseph's Hospice on March 20, 2016. Don was born on October 4, 1946 in Fort William, Ontario. He began working for Fort William Telephone in 1970 and retired 35 years later from TBayTel where he made life long friends.
Rick Gilmour passed away May 15, 2016 surrounded by his loving family. He was 56. Rick was born in Dauphin, Manitoba and arrived in Thunder Bay in 1970. After graduating from P.A.C.I. he had a successful 30+ year career as a lineman with Thunder Bay Hydro until the start of his all-too-short retirement in 2014.
November 22, 1954 – April 27, 2016 AKA Hank, Harry, Bear and Karhu, passed away unexpectedly at Hamilton General Hospital with family by his side. He had a love of motorcycles, football and NASCAR racing. His passion was his camp, fishing and hunting with his buddies who will sincerely miss Bear. Bear worked for Tbaytel until his retirement.
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Home / Press / Movie News and Reviews / Bilbo Baggins of ‘The Hobbit’ Has Reportedly Been Cast – Ace Show Biz (24aug09)
Bilbo Baggins of ‘The Hobbit’ Has Reportedly Been Cast – Ace Show Biz (24aug09)
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Ace Show Biz
Dropping by London’s BFI IMAX cinema to introduce ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy during a special marathon screening, Ian McKellen brings some updates for the other J.R.R. Tolkien’s adaptation.
"The Hobbit" has reportedly found the actor to play its titular role. Upon receiving an e-mail from Ringer spy Olli, The One Ring reported that actor Ian McKellen was the one who broke the news while making an appearance at a special marathon screening for the extended editions of all three "Lord of the Rings" films at London’s BFI IMAX cinema on Saturday, August 22.
According to Olli, the actor who plays wise wizard Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy revealed that he knows who will take on the starring role. However, he was keeping tight lips on whether or not "Atonement" actor James McAvoy is the one who will carry out the Bilbo Baggins character.
During his introduction for the screening, the 70-year-old McKellen also confirmed that he will be coming back as Gandalf in director Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel. The SAG Awards-winner also revealed, as reported by Olli, "he is currently re-Reading the hobbit and is expecting to be back in NZ in March" and "he should be seeing the script within the next week".
Los Angeles Times’ Hero Complex has reported that "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, "Doctor Who" lead actor David Tennant and James McAvoy were all rumored to be the potential candidates for Bilbo Baggins. However, both Radcliffe and Tennant have slammed the speculation. Radcliffe stated that he has no interest in the project, while Tennant claimed it to be plain Internet rumor.
"The Hobbit" is taken from J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel of the same title and is planned to be made into two-part movie. The movies will re-create the scenes of the novel, with additional events that make an impact to "The Lords of the Rings", such as the expulsion of Sauron from Mirkwood by The White Council.
Shooting is expected to start in March 2010 and go on for about 370 days. Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis are said to reprise their "The Lord of the Rings" roles as Lord Elrond and Gollum respectively. The first of the adventure fantasy movie is scheduled for December 2011 U.S. release, while the second one is expected to hit theaters across the U.S. a year later.
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Cautious Oversight of GMO's
DNA technology has enabled scientists to genetically modify crops to enhance beneficial qualities. The skeptics are concerned about corporations focused more on their bottom line than on the health of consumers, but others are cautiously optimistic about the potential life-saving changes that are possible.
The process begins by locating the genetic sequence of a favorable trait on a strand of DNA. Scientists apply enzymes to the strand to chop it into fragments and generate copies of the targeted gene; a method that has been used in forensic DNA analysis for years.
The isolated trait is then incorporated into a plasmid; a fragment of DNA found in the nucleus of a bacteria separate from its chromosomal DNA. The plasmid is modified with the genetic sequence for the new trait and then replaced in the bacteria or into a different host.
The research involving recombinant DNA technology is carefully regulated by the FDA, the EPA, and the USDA.
The UN
The Grand Old Party
A “republic” is a form of government that empowers its citizens to vote and elect officials, an idea that America was founded on when the Revolutionary War was fought to secure independence from the monarch of Great Britain.
Abe Lincoln was the first Republican President, and the Civil War was fought during his administration in an effort to prevent the southern states from creating a separate form of government.
In the years following the war, the first of the civil rights amendments were written.
13th Amendment abolished slavery
14th Amendment safeguards the legal protections and equal freedoms of Americans
15th Amendment secures the right to vote
The responsibilities of the executive branch are delegated to the President, the Vice President, and the offices of the Cabinet.
The Constitution empowers the President to select a team of close advisers to manage the numerous agencies and programs that influence the lives of Americans every day. During the first presidential administration, George Washington established four Cabinet posts: Secretary of State, Treasury, War, and the Attorney General.
Eleven other Cabinet-level positions have been added during the twentieth century, the most recent being the Department of Homeland Security created in 2002.
In July 1863, on a battlefield in Southwest Pennsylvania, 28,000 Confederate and 23,000 Union soldiers lost their lives fighting the Battle of Gettysburg.
The 3-day war was a decisive victory for the North and the turning point of the Civil War.
In November of that year, President Lincoln traveled to Pennsylvania and delivered the Gettysburg Address to a crowd of 15,000. The President’s two-minute speech is one of the most famous in American history.
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Behind Xi Jinping ‘Smiling Diplomacy’ Is a Strategy to Stop the Revision of Japan’s Constitution
Makiko Takita, Sankei Shimbun November 14, 2017 11:15 pm Leave your thoughts
anti-Japan, ASEAN, Constitutional revision, Donald Trump, Indo-Pacific, Japan-China relation, Li Keqiang, North Korean missile, Prime Minister Abe, Senkaku, Shinzo Abe, Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty, Trump's Asian Tour, US-Japan alliance, Xi Jinping
On his trip to Da Nang in central Vietnam, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the evening of November 11th, with both leaders vowing to further improve relations between their countries. The Prime Minister called for China to play a greater role in efforts to exert maximum pressure on North Korea, as the latter has continued its nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile development programs.
Abe had just launched his fourth administration following a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election. Similarly, President Xi Jinping had just been confirmed at the Communist Party Convention in October to begin his second term. The sixth meeting between the two leaders, who both recently secured their respective political bases, began with smiles. Departing from his strategy to date, Xi has changed track to employ “smiling tactics” with respect to Japan. One must wonder why, however.
Xi said, “This meeting marks a new start for Japan-China relations.”
Abe replied, “I agree completely.”
The mood continued, with the approximately 50-minute long meeting ending on the same congenial note. The often tenuous Japan-China relationship was, perhaps, showing prospects for improvement.
According to numerous sources within the government, Japan put forward the request for talks with Xi, but made no specific request with respect to the Premier of China, Li Keqiang. It was the Chinese who said, “We would like to have a meeting between Prime Minister Abe and Premier Li at the ASEAN summit in Manila.”
Although 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty, a rapid change of track toward diplomatic talks presents a risk for the Xi administration, which has heretofore focused solely on “anti-Japan” and “anti-corruption” agendas.
Despite this, a major factor in the shift toward a smiling strategy is the strengthening of Japan-US relations brought about, in part, by the arrival of President Donald Trump. For five years, the policy of “diplomacy that takes a panoramic perspective of the world map” has proven successful, with Indo-Pacific countries drawing together to contain China. The Chinese economy has also begun to fluctuate.
These are all major factors that prompted Xi to move towards repairing Japan-China relations. However, in fact, there is yet another reason: to block Japan’s constitutional revision.
Since May, when Abe announced his administration’s goal of revising Japan’s Constitution by 2020, China has repeatedly expressed its concerns regarding the revision via the Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua. Despite Japan’s explanation that any proposed change would simply enable Japan to defend itself, the Chinese have not attempted to veil their suspicions, asking, “Are you sure Japan is not just taking advantage of the North Korean situation to revise the Constitution?”
Although there is no need to be drawn to the issue of interference in domestic affairs, improving relations with China here is unavoidable, considering the North Korean situation. After all, cooperation from China, which accounts for 90% of North Korea’s trade volume, is essential in the successful implementation of economic sanctions against Pyongyang. Considering a distinct possibility of the situation deteriorating further, continued discussion amongst said countries’ leaders will be crucial.
However, the dispute over the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture) is a lingering issue that remains unresolved between Japan and China. Thus, relations will not be improved merely by smiling. Abe was quick to remind Xi of this fact, saying, “Without stability in the East China Sea, there will be no real improvement in Japan-China relations.
Makiko Takita is a staff writer of the Sankei Shimbun Political news department. She is contributing this report from Da Nang, Vietnam.
(Click here and here to read the original articles in Japanese.)
Makiko Takita is a political reporter with the Sankei Shimbun.
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Media’s Myopic View Obscures Big Picture in Sino-Japanese Relations
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Douglas H. Paal, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, spoke with the Sankei S
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Today In Jazz
Happy Birthday Ronnie Matthews, Sylvia Syms, Eddie Sauter and Wynton Kelly!
Let’s celebrate four jazz giants who were born on this day and all of whom left an indelible legacy – two pianists, a singer and a composer/arranger.
We’ll start with pianist Ronnie Matthews (1935-2008), caught in great form by an amateur videographer – the juice was flowing that night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbZoCbE1BxE
Singer Sylvia Syms (1917-92) was taken in as a teenager by Billie Holiday and Benny Carter, admired by Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte, and loved by Art Tatum. Here she is, in the wee small hours of the morning jamming with Mr. Tatum – this has never been commercially released.
Eddie Sauter (1914-81) was the most original voice in jazz composition and arranging after Duke Ellington in the 1930’s and 40’s, and has yet to be appropriately recognized for his contributions to jazz. In the early 1950’s, Sauter paired up with another vital voice in orchestrated jazz, Bill Finegan, and their madcap, unique, humorous and deep music was captured on the Abbott and Costello Show in 1953. Dig the humorous introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bIc6Vls1c
Wynton Kelly (1931-71) was one of the most swinging pianists of his generation, and had a knack for providing the perfect accompaniment to whomever he was playing with. This clip from a 1959 television broadcast finds Kelly with the famous Miles Davis Quintet (John Coltrane/Paul Chambers/Jimmy Cobb). Every note is a classic:
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About Joe C. Davis
About the Foundation and Its History
Trustees and Staff
Grant Making Policies and Practices
How and When to Apply for a Grant
The Foundation makes contributions to charitable organizations exemplifying the core values of Joe C. Davis: the importance of personal initiative, perseverance, hard work, education, and entrepreneurship.
The Foundation’s primary areas of focus are education, healthcare, and community and social services. Geographically, the Foundation’s focus is the Nashville, Tennessee area.
The Foundation seeks to invest in organizations with strong leadership; organizations with long-term, sustainable financial models; and organizations that are the leading experts in the relevant area of service.
The Foundation supports a wide range of education-related organizations.
In recent years, the Foundation’s support of public K-12 educational programs has focused primarily on recruitment and development of top talent in the education sector, and on increasing the supply of high-performing charter schools. The Foundation’s support of private, tuition-based K-12 educational institutions is now limited to Montgomery Bell Academy and Harpeth Hall School, where the Foundation primarily funds need-based scholarships for academically promising students.
The Foundation supports a variety of early childhood programs, after-school programs, adult education programs, and workforce development programs. The Foundation has also supported a limited number of post-secondary institutions, most notably Vanderbilt University, but also a few others from time to time, particularly in specialized areas of training.
The Foundation supports a broad array of healthcare organizations and endeavors. These have included medical training, health and wellness initiatives, medical clinics serving the underinsured, addiction services, mental health services, and crisis services. Within these areas, the Foundation has, from time to time, funded facilities, research, technology, and routine services. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Foundation has primarily supported research and medical training.
The Foundation supports a wide variety of social service organizations, with a particular focus on helping children reach their highest potential and helping adults become self-sufficient. Programming areas include such things as youth mentoring, parent education, workforce development, affordable housing, and community resource centers.
Excluded Categories
Except as may be incidental to other programs, the Foundation does not provide funding for (a) the arts, (b) environmental causes, or (c) religious activities. The Foundation also does not make grants to individuals or for the support of fundraising events or dinners.
The Foundation generally prefers to make one-time grants designed to enhance existing programs, and sometimes to create new ones if they have a long-term financial sustainability model. The Foundation will also consider capital requests, including facility funding. The Foundation will consider relatively small grant requests in support of regular ongoing operating costs; however, multiple requests from the same organization over consecutive years are reviewed to be sure the Foundation is not creating excessive ongoing dependency upon its grants.
The Foundation’s larger grants are typically made only after fairly extensive interaction between the Foundation and the grant seeker over an extended period.
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Military Time Chart
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Military Watches and Timepieces
Military watches have substantially different components as compared to civilian timepieces. They also have contributed to the evolution of the watch in many ways.
The uses to which military timepieces are put are much more widely varying than the applications that civilians use timepieces for, by and large.
There are also some professions that require a sophisticated timepiece that has superior abilities when compared to the average watch. The need for functionalities not commonly found in other time pieces stems from the applications and stresses which the timepieces are used for and must endure.
Military Watches: Built Tough
To have a watch that can withstand certain rigorous activities, the watch must be designed in a special way with special components to allow for normal functioning in extreme circumstances.
Long ago, timepieces were highly unreliable, and were not very useful for navigating the sea because the salty, damp air wreaked havoc on their delicate internal machinations. Brass was then implemented in timepieces that were to be used at sea, potentially by a navy.
The brass inner workings of the timepiece allowed it to be used reliably at sea without the excessive failures of timepieces that were created out of materials other than brass.
The utilization of brass in sea-faring instruments and timepieces represents an early advancement of timepiece technology to allow for the use of the piece in a more rigorous environment.
A Concise Guide to Military Timepieces
Watch Protection
Initially wristwatches had ceramic enamel coverings, which while clear were also delicate. To be constantly worn on the wrist the watch had to be durable. So to accommodate for this, a metal protective grill was made available.
This proved popular with military men because it increased the life of the watch by protecting against accidental damage to the enamel watch face covering.
However, this eventually proved problematic due to the glare from the sun that would reflect off of the metal grills and enamel faces. This had the drawback of potentially revealing the position of an infantryman to the enemy, even over substantial distances.
Features of Military Watches
There are several other features that military watches require. Pilots and other military personnel who must perform tasks at night require a watch that they can read while they work. For this purpose, they use watches that have illuminated bezels, numbers, or hands.
There are several ways to illuminate a watch. The watch may use slightly radioactive materials such as tritium. Tritium is produced in a nuclear reactor and decays over time as it gives off light.
Specialized Military Watches
Another use for which the military watches are required to have special construction is for use at sea. The watches of submariners must be able to handle the rigors of the environments to which they are exposed, such as frequent dampness.
Also, the watch must be constructed of special materials so as not to interfere with the submarine, nor be interfered with by the submarine itself.
Watches made for divers are another area of military time piece technology where the rigors of the environment necessitate that the watch be made to exacting standards utilizing techniques that make it able to perform its task accurately even under the added stresses of military application.
Watches for divers must be waterproof. Many watches are water resistant, but not water proof. Water resistant watches can withstand brief contact with water, but ultimately cannot be used for diving. A diver without a diving watch might quickly lose track of the time, which is key for diving.
Many aspects of diving require accurate time keeping. For example, how long a diver has been at a given depth is a critical piece of information. The diver needs to know how long they have been at a given depth in order to avoid getting extremely sick and possibly dying.
When ascending after a dive, the diver performs what are known as safety stops. These stops are where a diver stops his ascension for a specific period of time to allow for smooth decompression. If a diver did not know how long they were at a given depth or for how long they had been at a safety stop, they could face dire consequences.
To withstand complete submersion, a watch must be hermetically sealed, and it must be made of materials that can withstand the water without corroding. Further, the watch must be designed to withstand the changes in pressure that a diver is subjected to.
When moving through the water column the watch will experience drastic changes in pressure, and if the military timepiece is not designed to handle this, it will fail.
Specifications of Military Watches
The United States has been issuing specifications for watches that military personnel are to wear should meet for quite some time. The military specifications provide specific requirements for the watch to meet in order for it to be used as a military timepiece.
These requirements include a variety of things, most aspects of a watch, including things like the size of the face of the watch, the width of line markings on the face of a watch, and the shape and color of symbols on the watch face.
Military timepieces also vary greatly with regards to their functionality and quality. General-purpose watches, for example are not as durable as the watches designed for diving purposes. The cost of production can also vary greatly depending on the components of a watch, who manufactures it, and what it is designed to do.
Military watches and timepieces are currently highly sophisticated. Many civilians also collect military timepieces. They collect them for many reasons, including the fact that they are built to known specifications to perform specific functions. Buying the average commercial watch comes with some uncertainty, but a military timepiece is reliably built to exacting specifications. This way the buyer knows what they are getting.
The certainty of purchasing a military timepiece, the quality that is available, and the connection to military history are a few of the reasons for purchasing a military timepiece.
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Pay Charts/Rank Insignia
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