Karel Jonckheere

Karel Jonckheere as Carolus Joannes Baptista Jonckheere (Ostend, 9 April 1906 – Rijmenam, 13 December 1993) was a Flemish writer and critic. Widely traveled, he was inspired by his journeys for his poems and novels.

Biography

Family origins and childhood
Karel Jonckheere was born in Ostend in the fishing district, Kamiel Jonckheere and Victorine de Clercq. He went to school at the Royal Athenaeum in Ostend, where he attended the science high school (human sciences). Then he went to Ghent and attended the Reichstageable Normal School to become a teacher for secondary education in Germanic languages.

Career

National Education
He began his professional career as a clerk in Ostend. In 1929, he began his teaching career, first at Gembloux High School, then in 1930, in Nieuwpoort and finally in 1944 in Ghent.

Belgian Ministry of the Interior
In 1945, he was secretary of the Belgian Minister of the Interior and the same year, director of Veurne State High School. In 1946 he was appointed inspector of public libraries. In 1953, he became an official at the Ministry of National Education and Culture.

Bibliography

Books

Gedichten (1942)
De verwachte (story from Steekspel met dubbelgangers) (in Meesters der Nederlandse vertelkunst, 1949)
De kolibri fluistert : indiaanse sprookjes (1951)
Vertellen onder te toverboom : naar Maya-sprookjes (1953)
Nacht?, zei de zon, nooit van gehoord (1967)
 Spaans schetsbroek : dertig coplas (1968)
 Met Elisabeth naar de golf (1971, reisverhaal)
 Sleutelbos op Gaston Burssens (1972)
 Kinderen met de krekelstem (1976)
 Vraag me geen leugens (1986)
 Wuiven naar gisteren (1987)
 Alice Nahon, schetsentoets bij haar beeld (1991)
 Niemand moet me helpen sterven (maar eenieder mag me leren leven) (1992)

Novels

 Brozens Anny (1932)
 Cargo (1940)
 Tierra caliente (1941)
 Tita vlucht (1942)
 De zevende haven (1942)
Steekspel met dubbelgangers (1944)
Kongo zonder buks of boy (1957)
 Kongo met het blote oog (1958)
 De vogels hebben het gezien (1968)
Oostende verteld (1970)
 De man met de ruiker (1977)
Verbannen in het vaderland (1978)

Poems

 Proefvlucht (1933)
 Het witte zeil (1935)
 Gewijde grond (1937)
 Klein testament (1938)
 Conchita (1939)
 Wat niet geneest (1943)
 Onvoorzien programma (1944)
 Avondbrieven (1946)
 Spiegel der zee (1946)
 Vloedlijn (1948)
 De hondenwacht (1951)
 Van zee tot schelp (1955)
 Verzamelde poems (1956)
 Ogentroost (1961)
 Grenzen van papier en pijn (1963)
 Roemeense suite (1965)
 De ring van de boon (1966)
 Ik had die man kunnen zijn (1969)
 In de wandeling lichaam geheten (1969)
 Poëtische inventaris (1973)
 Mijn gouden leesboek ABC (1974)
 Na-zicht (1976)
 Miniaturen (1979)
 Beatrijs (1980)
 De overkant is hier (1981)
Was het maar bij deze woorden gebleven (1983)
 Recht op da capo (1988)

Essay

 Bertus Aafjes, de dichter van de poëzie (1953)
 Van kritiek gesproken (1955)
 Poëzie en experiment (1956)
 De poëziemuur doorbreken (1958)
 De Vlaamse letteren vandaag (1958)
 De literatuur van de Nederlanden in de moderne tijd (1959)
 Raymond Brulez (1961)
 Ondergang en dageraad (1966)
 Een hart onder de dierenriem (1967)
 De literatuur in België (1968 met Roger Bodart)
 Leer mij ze kennen... de Vlamingen (1969)
 Denkend aan de Nederlanden (1970)
 In een anekdtoe betrapt (1971)
 Toon mij hoe je schrijft (1972)
 Omer K. de Laey (1976)
 De Kongo van Floris Jespers (1984)
 Herinneringen aan Ensor (1985)

Anthology

 Poëzie is overal. Van bijbel tot eskimo (1960)
 Gemini (1960)
 Kongo het woord (1961)
 Firmin Van Hecke (1962)
 Uit het nest geroofd (1962)
 Groot verzenboek voor al wie jong van hart is (1978)
 Brevarium der Vlaamse lyriek (1979)

Others

 Ik heb eens... (1962, radio reading)

 Filter uw dag (1970, aphoristic prose)
 De zwangere stopnaald (1972, aphoristic prose)
 Waar plant ik mijn ezel (1974, autobiography)
 Halve zolen en achterlappen (1974, aphoristic prose)
Boeketje Buysse, een levenschets en een bibliografisch overzicht (1974)
Mijn dochter wordt sirene (1976, autobiography)
 Ook ik, zelfs gij, vooral wij (1976, quotes)
Van den vos Reynaerde (1979, adaptation)
De kroon en de muze (1991, article)

See also
 Flemish literature

Sources
 Karel Jonckheere
 poems

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Category:People from Ostend
Category:Flemish writers


Bo Vesterdorf

Bo Vesterdorf (born  1945) is a Danish judge who has been President of the European Court of First Instance.

Vesterdorf began his career as a lawyer-linguist at the European Court of Justice before becoming Administrator in the Danish Ministry of Justice, examining magistrate, and Legal Attaché in the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Communities.

He was a Temporary Judge at the Østre Landsret (Danish Court of Appeal), Head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Division in the Ministry of Justice, Director of the Administration Department in the Ministry of Justice, and a university lecturer. He also served as a member of the Steering Committee on Human Rights at the Council of Europe, and subsequently as a member of its Bureau. In 2004 he became a member of the "Ad hoc committee on judicial training" at the Academy of European Law, Trier, Germany. He was a  judge at the European Court of First Instance from 25 September 1989 and its president from 4 March 1998 to 17 September 2007.

Vesterdorf has been Commander 1st Degree of the Danish Royal Order of the Dannebrog since 20 June 2006. On 1 November 2007 he was appointed Senior Legal Consultant at Plesner Law Firm in Copenhagen. He is an external fellow at University College London's Faculty of Law and is attached to St Gallen University, Switzerland and Fordham Law School, New York. In May 2008 he was made Doctor of Laws honoris causa by St Gallen University.

External links
BusinessWeek profile
Bo Vesterdorf CV

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Health (film)

HealtH (also known as Health and H.E.A.L.T.H.) is a 1980 American ensemble comedy film, the fifteenth feature project from director Robert Altman.  It stars Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, and Paul Dooley, and was written by Altman, Dooley and Frank Barhydt.  The film's title is an acronym for "Happiness, Energy, and Longevity through Health".

A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.  The election is rife with backroom deals and scandal; a businessman, Colonel Cody, is out to rig the votes and the outcome.  Dick Cavett and Dinah Shore, two television talk show personalities of the time, are mentioned prominently in the film.

HealtH was made by Robert Altman's company, Lion's Gate Films (no relation to Lionsgate Films), in early 1979.  It was the director's last film for the 20th Century-Fox studio, which shelved its official release for over two years. Despite this, it received festival showings and a brief Los Angeles run during 1980. The film was broadcast on various U.S. television stations over the years, including The Movie Channel and Fox Movie Channel, but has never been issued on home video.

Plot
Bearing similarities to Altman's 1975 film Nashville, along with a plotless structure, HealtH chronicles the progress of a health-food convention held at a luxury hotel in St Pete Beach, Florida.  As the convention takes place, the members of an organization called HealtH hold a campaign to find out who will become its President.  (Their name stands for "Happiness, Energy and Longevity through Health"; it also serves as their slogan.)  The candidates are Esther Brill, an 83-year-old afflicted with narcolepsy who calls herself "the first lady of health"; Isabella Garnell, who is serious against commercialism and materialism; and Dr. Harold (Gil) Gainey, a salesperson-turned-independent.

On the first day of the conference, The Steinettes (a female quartet dressed in green and yellow) introduce Dick Cavett, who is hosting his show on location and covering the details of the event.  He interviews Gloria Burbank and Esther Brill, two of the candidates competing for the new Presidency of the HealtH organization.  Burbank, a White House representative, has been sent to this venue on the President of the United States' behalf.  Later that day at the hotel lounge, Burbank's ex-husband Harry Wolff plans to re-schedule the Cavett interview, due to difficulties with Brill during her profile.  The moment Burbank heads to her room, Gil Gainey (a minor candidate) stops her and debates on the worth of her strategy.

On the morning of the second day, several conventioneers notice a seemingly dead body sunk to the bottom of the pool from their balconies. Harry Wolff and the President's advisor on health, Gloria Burbank, are chatting by the deep end of the pool. Gloria then dives into the pool, not realizing there is a body floating on the bottom. As she approaches it, she finally sees it and screams in fear, heading back to the surface.  Some other men dive in to rescue the drowned body, but it turns out that Gainey had been using an oxygen tank in order to play a publicity stunt.

That night, Garnell announces a serious message from the top of the hotel through her loudspeaker; many guests take notice, and some complain.  Around that time, a businessperson named Colonel Cody arrives at the conference, and heads to Garnell's room to interrogate and find out her plans.

Next morning, Harry finds out that Burbank is beginning to support Garnell, and thinks that this is not right.  Later on, while discussing breastfeeding and abortion with Brill, Burbank is astonished that Garnell and Brill were actually born male.  After serving in the Army, both had sex change operations in 1960.  Bobby Hammer, a dirty tricks specialist, actually concocted this revelation to trick Burbank.

After another discussion with Brill, Burbank enters the empty convention hall, where Cody interrupts her.  He finds her title, and the ideals of the HealtH organization, worthless.  Ashamed and in tears, Burbank is shocked that he controls not only HealtH, but also the ongoing election; he even plans to rig the votes and the outcome.  She runs back to tell Wolff on Cody's scheme.  As the couple start making love, Burbank is worried that it will be all over for her if Garnell wins.  Harry, however, assures her that Garnell is still a woman anyway.

On the fourth and final day, the results of the HealtH election are announced live on Cavett's show, and Esther Brill comes out as the victor.  Burbank and her ex-husband watch on from their balcony outside, and also take a glimpse at Cody proposing an offer to Brill.  Some time later, Cody, who turns out to be her harmless nut brother, gets into a fit of anger, knocking down everything in his path, and demands to get away immediately.

With the HealtH convention over, another one involving hypnotists is taking root at the hotel.  Before he and the candidates leave, Cavett briefly greets Dinah Shore, the host on hand for this event.  As the HealtH sign is taken down in front of the hotel, the Steinettes perform a Broadway-style show tune that closes the film.

Cast

Production

Under the supervision of Alan Ladd, Jr., head of 20th Century-Fox, director Robert Altman made HealtH for US$6 million through his Lion's Gate Films company (unrelated to the present-day firm based in Vancouver).  At the time, Altman had commitments to deliver films for Fox until 1981; HealtH was his fifteenth feature project.  "[Alan] had great faith in me," he told David Sterritt in 2000; "he put his own job on the line."  Of the film's timing, he said, "HealtH could have only been made when it was made, and that was the end of the Carter era."  This and 1979's Quintet were Altman's first collaborations with writer Frank Barhydt; the two would later work on the 1988 HBO miniseries Tanner '88, as well as 1993's Short Cuts and 1996's Kansas City.

In response to the diminishing box office returns of his last three efforts (A Wedding, Quintet and A Perfect Couple), and in case any delays could put a damper on his financing, Altman rushed HealtH into production.  The film was shot in sequence at only one location: the Don CeSar Beach Hotel in St Pete Beach, Florida.  Production began on February 20, 1979, and continued for three months.  The crew chose the Don CeSar, said Altman, because "we felt [this] would be fun, with lots of crazy situations and off-beat characters."  Joseph Byrd worked on the music score,  along with supervisor Allan Nicholls.

To capture the authenticity of the convention in the movie, art director Bob Quinn and co-writer Frank Barhydt visited an actual one in Boston, Massachusetts before shooting.  Over one hundred health food companies contributed to the set.  One of them, Sovex Granola, participated during the shoot; their scenes did not make it into the finished film, but they received end-credit billing.

Robert Altman was known to wear different hats on every new production of his; on the set of HealtH, he wore a straw one.  While filming, Altman got into a conflict with members of the local Teamsters branch, and had to pay "outrageous salaries" for certification.

Garner recalled "we had a lot of fun making it... I loved Bob Altman."

A short while after HealtH finished production, producer Robert Evans hired Altman for a musical version of Popeye, co-produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions.  Altman went to Malta to shoot the film, and brought the Steinettes from HealtH along with him.

Release

Distributor 20th Century-Fox originally planned HealtH for a Christmas 1979 release.  But by the time editing was complete, a change of management took place at the studio, and Alan Ladd, Jr. was among those to leave; as a result, Fox shelved the film.  After canceling plans for a March debut in January 1980, they moved it to their summer schedule; Altman's strategy was to have the film released in time for that year's presidential campaign.

Before that could take place, the company's new president, Norman B. Levy, planned an April 1980 run in St. Louis, Missouri.  Altman went against it and suggested test runs in four markets instead: San Francisco and Sacramento, California; Houston, Texas; and Boston, Massachusetts.  The resulting previews played to poor audience response, and some time later, Fox deemed it uncommercial for release.  In the end, the company replaced it on their schedule with Oh! Heavenly Dog, a crime comedy starring Chevy Chase and Benji the dog.

Save for Sherry Lansing, who loved the film, Robert Altman had a fallout with Fox personnel over their handling of HealtH.  After filming Popeye, Altman tried to contact Norman Levy on its status.  The filmmaker complained, "[Levy] didn't return my phone calls for seven weeks. That's just basic rudeness. I don't think he knows what a movie is anyway."  Moreover, he said of the studio's distribution unit: "Norman Levy and the rest are scum. [...] They're not interested in movies. They're interested in ski lifts and Coca-Cola."

Amid this situation, Altman began to distribute HealtH on his own by taking it to the film festival circuit.  The comedy was screened at the Montreal Film Festival in August 1980, and later appeared at Telluride and Venice.  Of the response at those venues, the director said: "It has a love-hate reaction—but what's wrong with that?"

By September 1980, the festival exposure prompted 20th Century-Fox to hold over a month of preview screenings at the UA Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles; a nationwide release was also considered.  Despite even worse acclaim this time, Altman remarked that this run "did respectable business, considering that there was no advertising. But it's finished, dead, buried."  Ultimately, HealtH would be Altman's last film for Fox; his experiences would later convince him to skip major distribution for Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.

On March 7, 1981, a 16 mm print of HealtH was shown at the facilities of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  The film also received a screening in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 28.  On April 7, 1982, it received its official cinema opening at the Film Forum 1 in New York City.

The film was released in at least two European markets: in Germany under the title Der Gesundheitskongress, and in the United Kingdom, where prints ran a few minutes longer than the original U.S. cut.

HealtH aired on the Philadelphia-based PRISM pay-TV service in February 1981, and also on the national U.S. outlet The Movie Channel that same year.  The film was also broadcast on the CBS network in August 1983.  As of 2010, a widescreen version has been shown on basic cable's Fox Movie Channel. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not released the film on VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray.

Reception
On the day of the film's Los Angeles opening on September 12, 1980, a review from Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "essentially a revue sketch, giving the boys and girls of the chorus a chance to dress up funny and mill about. All a revue sketch needs is a thin premise, a point of view and an exit line. But having only one out of three won't make it for a movie." He concluded, "If indeed Altman weren't so original and so talented, an indulgent mess like HealtH would merely be another unsuccessful film in a bad year. It is instead mournful and exasperating in about equal measure."

At the time of the Film Forum premiere, The New York Times' Vincent Canby wrote: "HealtH is, I suppose, a mess, but it is a glorious one in the recognizable manner of a major film maker who sometimes gets carried away—by his subject, by his own enthusiasms and those of his actors, and by the collaborative creative process he loves. As do so many of his films, HealtH gives one the feeling of being on a nonstop party with the people who made it."  He added that it "is no masterpiece, but it is one of the most appealing entertainments that Mr. Altman has ever put together".  In a later article, he declared: "HealtH deserves to be seen by anyone interested in the career of this most eccentric and unpredictable of contemporary American film directors."

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called it "a pretty bad movie" and "anemic. Altman sets himself up as superior to his insipid characters, laughs at them, and invites us to do likewise. That's not much of an achievement." Leonard Maltin gave HealtH two stars out of four in his Movie Guide, and added: "Non-Altman fans may love this more than devotees; Woodard steals the film—no easy feat considering that incredible cast—as [the] hotel's ultra-patient manager."  Halliwell's Film Guide referred to it as a "zany satirical all-star romp on the lines of A Wedding but by no means as likeable or laughable, considering its cast, as it should be".  The Film Bulletin called it a "misfired satire", and commented that its "major stars [...] are otherwise wasted".

In a 1985 book on Altman, Gerard Plecki called HealtH "a humorous companion piece to Nashville", adding that it "was certainly a major improvement over his two previous films". In regards to the studio shelving the film, Plecki remarked that it "certainly deserved mass marketing and a large promotion campaign".

On June 12, 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan screened the film at Camp David during stormy weather. In his diaries that day, he called it "the world's worst movie".

Themes
Since its release, HealtH has been viewed as a parody, and satire, of the U.S. political scene at the time of its filming; critic Daniel O'Brien also noticed "the parallels between the [HealtH] election and the U.S. Presidency explicitly spelt out (several times)" in the film.  In his book A Cinema of Loneliness, Robert Phillip Kolker stressed this aspect, writing that "Altman creates a world that is a parody of a political phenomenon that is itself already a parody of show business, for political conventions always mediate the realities of power with the signifiers of spectacle. [HealtH] is, finally, a representation of a representation."

Kolker also observed Altman's use of the carnivalesque, a style from Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin that the filmmaker employed in many of his productions.  O'Brien called this the film's "strongest asset [...], complete with hucksters and suckers (a handy metaphor for most aspects of American society".

In Kolker's words, HealtH is "a hilarious documentation of politics and culture at the end of the Carter era when passivity began to disguise itself as self-satisfaction and marginal interests requested majority attention".  The convention in the film "becomes a small mirror of larger political follies, of silly, self-serving people so convinced of their importance that they take for granted the fact that major significance attends their ridiculous activities".

O'Brien noted that in HealtH, "most of the main characters exhibit the expected Altman eccentricites", including the candidates in the election.  "All this comes across as a little forced," he continued, "recalling the random weirdness of Brewster McCloud rather than the carefully etched idiosyncrasies of The Long Goodbye or Three Women."  Moreover, someone says "Hit it!" just before the convention band replaces the opening Fox fanfare.

See also
List of American films of 1980

References

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Glycine reuptake inhibitor

A glycine reuptake inhibitor (GRI) is a type of drug which inhibits the reuptake of the neurotransmitter glycine by blocking one or more of the glycine transporters (GlyTs). Examples of GRIs include bitopertin (RG1678), Org 24598, Org 25935, ALX-5407, and sarcosine, which are selective GlyT1 blockers, and Org 25543 and N-arachidonylglycine, which are selective GlyT2 blockers. Some weak and/or non-selective GlyT blockers include amoxapine and ethanol (alcohol).

See also
 Reuptake inhibitor
 Glycinergic
 GABA reuptake inhibitor
 Excitatory amino acid reuptake inhibitor

References

External links
 Glycine Transporters - Tocris Bioscience

Category:Glycine reuptake inhibitors


Thomas Badeslade

Thomas Badeslade (active c. 1719–1750) was an English topographical draughtsman, who worked extensively with the engraver W. H. Toms.

One of his early works was to draw the illustrations for the History of Kent published in 1719 by Dr John Harris. Most of the plates were aerial views of country houses, drawn in the style of Leonard Knyff, a Dutch artist who had worked in England in the early 18th century. Harris was inspired by publication in 1707 and 1708 of two editions of Knyff's drawings of British estates, engraved by John Kip, and decided to attempt a similar work for country houses in Kent. Harris wrote the text himself, and commissioned Badeslade to produce the drawings, of which there were 36 in total. Harris paid for Badeslade to draw the view Rochester and Chatham, and for a bird's eye view of Tunbridge Wells from the south. For the other drawings, the arrangement was that the owner of the estate would pay for the plate to be made, and Harris would pay for the printing. Most of the drawings were engraved by John Kip and the rest by another John Harris (not the author). The history was published in 1719, but the drawings and plates were probably completed several years earlier.

In the 1720s and 1730s, Badeslade produced several volumes dealing with river navigation and canals, such as The history of the ancient and present state of the navigation of the port of King's-Lyn, and of Cambridge, and the rest of the trading-towns in those parts..., a 1725 treatise on fenland navigation and drainage.

It is unclear whether Thomas was the "J. Badeslade" or "T. Badeslade" who is credited along with John Rocque as an illustrator of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.... Three volumes appeared between 1715 and 1725, and these appear to credit J. Badeslade, who may have been a relative. A small edition of the fourth volume was published in 1739, and this clearly credits Thomas Badeslade and John Roque.

In 1741, Badeslade worked with W. H. Toms on "Chorographia Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. An engraving by W. H. Toms of Badeslade's drawing of Hawarden Castle is reported to have inspired John Boydell to leave Flintshire for London to learn the craft of printmaking.

Other works by Badeslade are known to include a plan of the ornamental gardens at Boughton Park, Northamptonshire and a watercolor of the orangery at Mount Edgcumbe House in Plymouth.

Works

References

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Manitoba Provincial Road 310

Provincial Road 310 (PR 310) is a short provincial road in the southeast corner of Manitoba, Canada.

PR 310 runs from PTH 12 at South Junction to the United States border, where it connects with Minnesota State Highway 310, which leads to the city of Roseau. The Roseau–South Junction Border Crossing is lightly traveled and used mostly by local residents.

References

External links
Manitoba Official Map

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Herman van Swanevelt

Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.

Life
Herman was born in Woerden to a family of thriving artisans whose ancestors included the famous painter Lucas van Leyden. The identity of Swanevelt’s teacher remains a mystery. A new hypothesis suggests that he was a pupil of Willem Buytewech.
He painted his first signed and dated works in 1623 in Paris. In 1629 he moved to Rome, where he painted many landscapes, and introduced a new type of idyllic landscape with sunlit 'contrejours' reflecting the times of day. As a matter of fact he seems to be one of the first to paint landscapes without biblical and mythological subjects. Swanevelt became a member of the Bentvueghels; his alias was "heremiet", while he preferred to work alone.

Created and developed by Paul Bril and Cornelis van Poelenburch from 1600 onward, the genre of the “Italianate landscape” entered its classical phase in the 1630s with the advent of Swanevelt and his friends and contemporaries Pieter van Laer and Claude Lorrain. His paintings became very popular and the Barberini family, Pope Urban VIII and the Vatican offered him commissions, like in the monastery of Monte Cassino. Along with Lorrain and others, he also painted landscapes for Philip IV of Spain's new Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid.

In 1641 he returned to Paris, where he remained except for occasional visits to his birthplace Woerden. He became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1651. He assisted in the decoration of the Hôtel Lambert and made numerous drawings and etchings. His patrons in France were Cardinal Richelieu and King Louis XIV. Swanevelt lived in Rue du Temple when he died.

Art

During the beginning of the 1630s his development runs parallel to Claude's, and in some ways even anticipates it. During the thirties Swanevelt refined his idyllic landscape style. Swanevelt was an important link between the first generation of Dutch italianate painters, such as Cornelis van Poelenburch and Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and those of the second generation who imitated his monumental compositions and his treatment of southern sunlight. In the last decade of his life when Swanevelt made a few trips to Woerden, he also painted Dutch scenery, but with the typical southern sunlight.

Works

For a long time the only murals attributed to Swanevelt were the two lunettes in the sacristy of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, of which only one survived. Art historian Susan Russell proposed that a frieze with seven scenes from the life of the Old Testament's Joseph in the east wing of Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona was also painted by him.

One of Swanevelt's etchings, "The Birth of Adonis," (1654) resides in the Utah Museum of Fine Art's permanent collection.

Notes

External links

Works at WGA
 The Cleveland Museum with drawings
 The Rijksmuseum on Swanevelt with examples of etchings
 Website from the Getty Museum

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Kazuki Kimura

is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is the current Ōi title holder. He is also the oldest player to win a major title for the first time.

Early life
Kimura was born in Yotsukaidō, Chiba Prefecture on June 23, 1973. He learned how to play shogi at a friend's house when he was in kindergarten, and started regularly going to a local shogi club when he was a second-grade elementary school student.

Kimura first met his future mentor shogi professional  when the two played a 2-piece handicap game. Kimura soon began taking lessons from Sase at his house, where he occasionally played practice games against Hiroe Nakai, who was another one of Sase's students. In 1985, he advanced to the quarterfinals of the  as sixth-grade elementary school student, and later that same year entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school under the guidance of Sase.

At first, Kimura progressed fairly quickly and was promoted to the rank of 3-dan in the fall of 1990 when he was an eleventh-grade high school student, but it took more than six years before he was able to obtain professional status and the rank of 4-dan in April 1997.

Shogi professional
In June 2019, Kimura defeated Yoshiharu Habu to earn the right to challenge Masayuki Toyoshima for the 60th Ōi title. In the title match against Toyoshima, Kimura lost the first two games before coming back to tie the score at two wins apiece. Toyoshima won Game 5 and needed just one more win to defend his title; Kimura, however, won the last two games to win the match 4 games to 3. The victory not only gave Kimura his first major title, but it also made him the oldest first time winner of a major title at the age of 46 years and 3 months, breaking the record of 37 years and 6 months set by Michio Ariyoshi in 1973.

Promotion history
The promotion history for kimura is as follows:
1985: 6-kyū
1988: 1-dan
1997, April 1: 4-dan
1999, April 1: 5-dan
2001, December 17: 6-dan
2003, April 1: 7-dan
2007, April 1: 8-dan
2017, June 26: 9-dan

Titles and other championships
Kimura has been the challenger for a major title seven times, and has won one title; he has also won two non-major-title championships during his career.

Awards and honors
Kimura has received a number of Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards throughout his career. He won the ""Best New Player" award for 19971998; the "Best Winning Percentage" award for 19981999; the "Best Winning Percentage", "Most Games Won" and  "Most games Played" awards for 20002001; and the "Fighting-spirit" award for  20082009.

Year-end prize money and game fee ranking
Kimura has finished in the "Top 10" of the JSA's  seven times since turning professional.

Note: All amounts are given in Japanese yen and include prize money and fees earned from official tournaments and games held from January 1 to December 31.

References

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Dominican Summer League Rojos

The Dominican Summer League Rojos are a minor league baseball team of the Dominican Summer League. and is based in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. The team plays in the Boca Chica South division and is affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds.

Roster

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Berezovo, Velikoustyugsky District, Vologda Oblast

Berezovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneyerogodskoye Rural Settlement, Velikoustyugsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2002.

Geography
The distance to Veliky Ustyug is 43.5 km, to Lodeyka is 4.5 km. Afanasovets is the nearest rural locality.

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Cat Creek Oil Field Sign

The Cat Creek Oil Field Sign, located about  west of the town of Mosby at about mile 150 on Highway 200, in Petroleum County, Montana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

It is "an isolated and lonely reminder of the once booming oil industry presence in central Montana during the infancy of commercial oil development" in Montana.  It commemorates the Cat Creek Oil Field which boomed during 1920-1925 and again in the 1940s.

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Hapoel HaNamal Haifa F.C.

Hapoel HaNamal Haifa (), also called Hapoel Namal Haifa, was an Israeli football club based in Haifa.

History
The club was established in 1949 by workers of the Port of Haifa. The club joined Liga Mehuedet, a second tier league created especially for this season. The club finished as runners-up in the Samaria Division and was placed in Liga Bet, once league activities resumed in fall 1951. During their second season in the league, the club's players rioted during a match with local rivals Hakoah Haifa, and the club was suspended from activities. Following the suspension, the club quit the IFA and folded, its players moving to play for Hapoel Kiryat Haim. A team representing the Haifa harbour operated in later years in the regional Workers Leagues, winning the Prime Minister Cup for workplace clubs in 1963.

In the State Cup, the club enrolled to the 1949 competition, but forfeited their first round tie against Hapoel Tel Aviv without playing a match. The following season, the club defeated Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Zikhron Ya'akov to reach the quarter-finals stage, losing to eventual finalists, Maccabi Tel Aviv 0–2.

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Coates, Cambridgeshire

Coates is a small village close to the town of Whittlesey, in the English county of Cambridgeshire. Coates has a shop which is no longer a spar.

Description
The village has two greens, North Green and South Green, which are divided by the busy A605 road, which runs through the village. There is a small shop (Spar) which includes a post office. Coates has a church, a chapel, a village hall and a primary school. Local businesses include  a Chinese takeaway (Lucky House), two pubs (The Carpenters Arms and The Vine), a violin shop (Simon Watkin Violins) and a number of farms. It also has a war memorial on north green. The village has its own fishing lake. It was awarded Fenland's best kept village in 1993. It is famous for its Petanque competitions as people from different countries such as the Netherlands and Austria come to compete.

There is a well supported traditional annual Village show with classes for farming, gardening, winemaking, cooking and photography, this being held jointly at Holy Trinity church and the Methodist Chapel.

History
The origins of the name are from the word 'Cotes', a corruption of cottages.  The village is referred to on ancient maps as 'Moreton's Cotes', with reference to Bishop Morton.

Churches
The Anglican church of the Holy Trinity was designed by architect James Wild in a brick interpretation of the Norman style and built in 1840.

The Methodist church on the North Green opened in the early 1840s, but closed in August 2012 when it faced £100,000 refurbishment costs.

Recent events
Part of the filming for the 2007 war film Atonement starring Keira Knightley was filmed outside Coates at the end of Eldernell Lane.

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1916 Denver Pioneers football team

The 1916 Denver Pioneers football team represented the University of Denver in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1916 college football season.  In their second season under head coach John Fike, the Pioneers compiled a 4–2–1 record (3–2 against RMC opponents), finished third in the conference, and outscored all opponents by a total of 92 to 79.

Schedule

References

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Portsburgh

Portsburgh was a burgh of barony outside the city walls of Edinburgh, Scotland from 1649 to 1856, taking its name from the West Port (gate) of Edinburgh.  It extended from Lochrin in the west to Drummond Street in the east, and from King's Stables Road in the north to the Meadows in the south. The name survives in Portsburgh Square off the West Port.

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Luzhou District, Changzhi

Luzhou District (), formerly known as Chengqu () or Cheng District is a district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China. It has an area of  and a population of 416,000.

References

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Official website of Luzhou District government

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Perote, Wisconsin

Perote is a ghost town in Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Perote was located in the town of Menominee  south-southwest of White Lake. The town was marked on USGS maps as late as 1952.

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Mirel Bolboașă

Mirel Georgian Bolboașă (born 11 June 1989) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for UTA Arad.

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The Heartbreak Kid (2007 film)

The Heartbreak Kid is a 2007 American black comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers.  Starring Ben Stiller, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name.  Also starring are Michelle Monaghan, Malin Åkerman, Jerry Stiller, Rob Corddry, Carlos Mencia, Scott Wilson and Danny McBride.  The screenplay for the 2007 film was written by Leslie Dixon, Scot Armstrong, the Farrelly brothers and Kevin Barnett.

Plot
Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller), the owner of a San Francisco sports shop, is single but ambivalent about starting a relationship. While walking, he sees a thief snatching a woman's purse. He tries but fails to retrieve the purse. He and its owner Lila (Malin Åkerman) exchange pleasantries but not numbers. Eddie finds Lila to be attractive and funny.

They begin dating and shortly after, become exclusive. Suddenly a new job offer requires Lila to move to Holland. However, her company has a policy of not deploying married employees abroad. At the urging of both his father, Doc (Jerry Stiller) and best friend, Mac (Rob Corddry), Eddie marries Lila after only dating a few months.

Before their wedding night, Eddie and Lila have never been sexually intimate and have not spent a lot of time getting to know each other. During the drive to their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, Eddie learns some new things about Lila he finds annoying, such as incessant singing. When they get to their resort room, they have sex for the first time and Eddie learns that Lila's sex drive is so wild that he suffers physical pain. Eddie's disaffection deepens when Lila divulges her history of cocaine abuse, a deviated septum, and her habit of spitting drinks out through her nose. He learns that professionally she was only a volunteer, and that the purse snatcher had been one of her former lovers that she owed money.

Eddie realizes he has made a mistake in marrying Lila, and that he rushed into the marriage without really getting to know her. He is not in love with Lila and finds some of her newly discovered behavior and bad habits to be intolerable.

At the Los Cabos resort run by Uncle Tito (Carlos Mencia), Lila adamantly refuses to use sunblock while sunbathing only in baby oil. She then blames Eddie for the agony of her second-degree sunburn. As the enormity of Eddie's mistake sinks in, he meets Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), a vacationer with her family from Mississippi. Eddie is immediately attracted to Miranda and finds himself spending most of his honeymoon with Miranda and her family while Lila is confined to her room due to the sunburn. Eddie meets Miranda's family and makes a favorable impression on all of them except for her cousin, Martin (Danny McBride). Martin senses that Eddie is hiding something. Eddie confides in Mac regarding his feelings about Lila and Miranda, stating that he doesn't want to be married to Lila anymore and that he has made a mistake. He tells Mac that he is falling for Miranda, whom he just met.

Sometime later that same evening, there is a misunderstanding between Eddie and Miranda's family because of twin boys Eddie previously met at a wedding. The twins told Miranda's family that Eddie came to Mexico to mourn his wife who was killed by a maniac with an ice pick, something Eddie told them sarcastically. Later on, Eddie decides to divorce Lila and tries to bring it up at lunch, when Martin and his brother Buzz (Roy Jenkins) learn of his secret. When Miranda learns about Lila, she and Eddie fall into the ocean and Eddie is attacked by a jellyfish (Lila treats the stings by urinating on him). After the chaos, Lila and Miranda both abandon him (Miranda for Eddie's deception and Lila for Eddie's wish of a divorce). Angry, Lila destroys Eddie's passport.

Eddie sinks into a depression and annoys a fellow Mexican named Manuel (Luis Accinelli) with his problems. Coerced by Uncle Tito, Eddie decides to go to Mississippi to make amends with Miranda. Border patrol agents repeatedly catch Eddie attempting to cross the U.S. border illegally with help from Tito. Eddie finally gets to Oxford, Mississippi. Upon meeting Miranda's family, he learns that she has married her previous boyfriend. Despite promising to leave Miranda alone, Eddie sneaks in and awakens Miranda as her husband sleeps. Her husband wakes up when Martin bursts in and attacks Eddie with a baseball bat, until Doc intervenes. Eddie agrees to leave if Miranda says she truly loves her new husband, which she does. Eddie leaves with Doc, without knowing Miranda that looks longingly from her balcony as he walks away.

Eighteen months later, Eddie is divorced from Lila (while also losing his sports store to her), and he moves permanently to Mexico. Sometime later, Miranda arrives in Mexico and finds Eddie. She tells him that she has left her husband and wants to be with him. Eddie is thrilled, but hides that he has a new wife, Consuela (Eva Longoria). At the end of the film he finds himself in the same predicament.

Cast
 Ben Stiller as Edward "Eddie" Cantrow, a sports store owner and the main protagonist who marries too soon and goes through turmoil, causing him to go insane.
 Malin Åkerman as Lila Cantrow, Eddie's wife who at first is everything Eddie wants, but later turns out to be a total nightmare.
 Michelle Monaghan as Miranda, a woman in Mexico who Eddie believes is his true soulmate.
 Jerry Stiller as Doc Cantrow, Eddie's father who often visits Las Vegas and gives Eddie rather vulgar tips on women.
 Rob Corddry as Mac, Eddie's best friend who is in a struggling marriage himself.
 Carlos Mencia as Uncle Tito, the owner of the hotel Eddie and Lila stay in on their honeymoon.
 Danny McBride as Martin, Miranda's cousin who is suspicious of Eddie and treats him coldly.
 Roy Jenkins as Buzz, Martin's brother who treats Eddie more fairly.
 Ali Hillis as Jodi, Eddie's ex-girlfriend who gets married at the start of the film.
 Scott Wilson as Boo, Miranda's uncle and Martin and Buzz's dad.
 Amy Sloan as Deborah, Martin's wife.
 Kayla Kleevage as Doc's Vegas Companion, a huge-chested woman who is in the scene with Doc during his phone conversation with Eddie.
 Stephanie Courtney as Gayla, Buzz's wife.
 Polly Holliday as Beryll, Boo's wife, Miranda's aunt, and Martin and Buzz's mom,
 Eva Longoria as Consuelo Cantrow, Eddie's Mexican wife at the end of the film.
 Lauren Bowles as Tammy, Mac's wife who ends up in a dysfunctional marriage with him.
 Luis Accinelli as Manuel, an elderly Mexican who Eddie annoys after being stranded in Mexico.
 Jerry Sherman as Anderson, Miranda's granddad.

Promotion
During the film's preview at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, a sex scene from the film was cut due to backlash for the nudity in prior films at the convention such as 300 and Borat.

Reception

Box office
The film grossed  in 3,219 theaters in its opening weekend, putting it in second place at the box office in North America. The film eventually grossed a total of  worldwide, which includes $36,787,257 in North America and $90,979,393 in other territories.

Critical response
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 29% based on 156 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Despite some amiable performances, The Heartbreak Kid is neither as daring nor as funny as the Farrelly Brothers' earlier films". On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 46 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/heartbreakkid2007 |title=The Heartbreak Kid (2007): Reviews |accessdate=November 27, 2007 |publisher=CBS Interactive |work=Metacritic}}</ref> Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.

Peter Travers (of Rolling Stone'') declared the film the year's Worst Remake on his list of the Worst Movies of 2007.

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Jean Donneau de Visé

Jean Donneau de Visé (1638 – 8 July 1710) was a French journalist, royal historian ("historiographe du roi"), playwright and publicist.  He was founder of the literary, arts and society gazette "le Mercure galant" (founded in 1672) and was associated with the "Moderns" in the "Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns".

Life

Donneau de Visé was born in Paris.  He was among the detractors of Molière during the quarrel over Molière's play "The School for Wives" (1662, "l’École des femmes"), accusing the author of obscenity and moral licentiousness.  But Donneau de Visé eventually became reconciled with the comic playwright and contributed his own plays to Molière's acting troop, starting with la Mère coquette (1665) and (after Molière's death) several "machine" plays ("pièces à machines", i.e. plays with elaborate special scenic effects) written in collaboration with Thomas Corneille -- Circé (1675) and la Devineresse (1679) -- which were very successful in their runs at the Hôtel Guénégaud.

Donneau de Visé wrote a collection of short novelas: Nouvelles galantes et comiques (1669).

In 1672, Donneau de Visé founded the "Mercure galant", a gazette on the arts, theater and literature, which also included galant songs and society news and gossip.  Although frequently denigrated by authors of the period (such as Jean de La Bruyère), the periodical eventually became a financial success, and brought (along with his plays and his work as royal historian) Donneau de Visé comfortable revenues.

At his death in 1710, Donneau de Visé's "Mercure galant" had become the uncontested arbiter of literary taste and the paper of record for news about the court and court society for subscribers in the provinces.

Work

In 1664, Donneau de Visé produced a heterogenous literary compilation under the title Les Diversités gallantes (English:Various Galantries). It was published by Claude Barbin, initially consisting of:
A preface dedicated to Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise, who had just inherited his title, and a dialogue discussing his qualities, 16 pages in length.
The novella L'apothicaire de qualité, nouvellee galante et veritable (English: The Noble Apothecary, A Gallant and True Story), 45 pages in length.
A letter critique of the recent theatrical output of Molière, 15 pages in length.
A comic novella set at a Parisian inn, 52 pages in length.
The seven-scene, one-act theatrical play La Vengéance des Marquis (English: The Marquis' Revenge), 40 pages in length.

The work proved popular and was reprinted twice in 1664. The 1665 edition added to the work two previously published novellas: L'Avanture d'hostellerie, ou les Deux rivales (English:Adventure at the Inn, or The Two Rivals) and Le Mariage de Belfegore, nouvelle facétieuse (English: The marriage of Belphegor, a Mischievous Novella). The work continued to receive new editions to the 1670s, both at France and abroad.

Allison Stedman summarizes the plot of The Noble Apothecary, which focuses on noble protagonists Timante (male) and Araminte (female). Timante regularly visits the residence of his friend Araminte, and a servant escorts him to her bedroom. There the two discuss various topics, with Araminte lounging in bed and the visitor sited nearby. The presence of servants and other visitors ensures that they are never alone. One day, Timante enters to find the house seemingly deserted but still heads towards Araminte's bedroom. He finds Araminte kneeling on the bed, with her behind uncovered. She is waiting for someone to administer an enema, and the syringe has already been prepared. Timante impulsively the role of an apothecary and delivers the treatment. Then slips away unseen.

Araminte and her staff can not explain who entered the bedroom. Rumors of a ghost apothecary soon circulate in Paris. When the identity of the ghost is discovered, Araminte is humiliated and bans entry to her house to Timante. In a series of epistles, Timante tries to convince her to reconsider. He rationally argues that his treatment of her was an act of gallantry (chivalry), assisting her in her hour of need. With Cartesian-like arguments, Timante wins her over and proceeds to marry her. The society around them puzzled by a properly-delivered enema as grounds for marriage.

Stedman finds the circumstances surrounding this work to be indicative of the publishing trends of the 17th-century. Novelistic works of various lengths and genres were typically published as part of wider books. Sharing room with ghost stories, fairy tales, allegories, poetry, etc. Virtually any type of work could end up published along a novel. But these novels, and novellas are rarely studied in the context which they originally appeared. And they are often overlooked altogether. What she terms "hybrid literary production" chronologically follows the lengthy, action-oriented novels of the previous era. And they both precede and differ from the new dominant literary form of the reign of Louis XIV: the short, psychologically-realistic novellas epitomized by La Princesse de Clèves (1678).

References

Dandrey, Patrick, ed. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le XVIIe siècle. Collection: La Pochothèque. Paris: Fayard, 1996.
Harvey, Paul and J.E. Heseltine, eds. The Oxford Compagnon to French Literature. London: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Sources

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XHJL-FM

XHJL-FM is a radio station on 99.3 FM in Guamúchil, Sinaloa. It is owned by Grupo Chávez Radio and known as La JL with a news/talk format.

History
XEJL-AM 1400 received its concession on December 20, 1958. The 1,000-watt station, which by the 1960s was broadcasting on 1300 kHz, was owned by Francisco Bartolo Meza.

XEJL migrated to FM in 2011 as XHJL-FM 99.3.

La JL is one of three talk-formatted stations owned by Grupo Chávez Radio in Sinaloa: the others are XHTNT-FM in Los Mochis and XHGS-FM in Guasave.

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Museum of Discovery and Science

The Museum of Discovery and Science is a museum located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is one of the largest museums of its kind in Florida, and has the most visitors of any museum in the state. The museum features its own AutoNation IMAX theater, and shows 3-D IMAX films in which viewers wear special glasses and headsets. The museum also features a number of "ecoscapes", as well as a simulated ride to Mars, a simulated airboat ride in the Everglades and a MaxFlight airplane flight simulator. Among the more popular aspects of the museum are the quantity and variety of Floridian animal species on display. The public are allowed to get quite close to the animal life such as otters, baby alligators, snakes, tortoises, rabbits, bats, tarantulas, scorpions, geckos, cockroaches, centipedes, hermit crabs, freshwater fish, freshwater stingrays, black pacus, frogs, tadpoles, alligator snapping turtle, turtles, sharks, saltwater fish, horseshoe crabs and a sea turtle, and the museum frequently has organized animal-centered demonstrations, or more informal meet-and-greets with native and exotic Florida fauna.

Other than the animals on display, the Museum of Discovery and Science currently features a Discovery Center for ages 7 and under, Go Green exhibit, Runways to Rockets including airplane simulators and information about space, Powerful You! exhibit, minerals and rocks on display, prehistoric fish and dinosaur eggs and fossils on display, games, puzzles, the Explore Store, food concessions, and a moving exhibit.

The Museum of Discovery and Science moved to its current location in downtown Fort Lauderdale in 1992. The "Great Gravity Clock" in front of the entrance is one of the main features of the museum and is one of only three in the world. The other two are in Japan and Mexico.  The museum plays host to birthday parties, (sea) turtle walks and camp-ins, and has its own summer camp.

The Museum of Discovery and Science also funds a volunteer program that allows children and adults alike to give back to the community.

The IMAX theater offers IMAX with Laser and features a 4980 square foot screen, playing both 2-D and 3-D movies. The five-story-high screen is the largest in South Florida.

The museum also hosts many special event activities such as the annual "Food and Wine Gala" to raise money.

EcoDiscovery Center Expansion

In November 2011 the museum opened a 34,000 square foot, $25 million expansion, designed by Cambridge Seven Associates. The expansion, titled the EcoDiscovery Center, doubles the amount of exhibit space in the museum and includes  exhibits called: The Everglades Airboat Adventure, Prehistoric Florida, Otters at Play, Storm Center, Florida Water Story. The new wing also houses four lifetime learning spaces and a large temporary exhibit space. The new wing opened simultaneously with a new Science Theater in the aviation exhibit gallery.

Notes

References
Florida, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, 2004, pg. 129
With Otters, an Airboat and Hurricane-force Winds, a Museum Grows, Miami Herald Article, posted 11 November 2011

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Eystein I of Norway

Eystein Magnusson (Old Norse: Eysteinn Magnússon, Norwegian: Øystein Magnusson; c. 1088 – 29 August 1123) was King of Norway (as Eystein I) from 1103 to 1123 together with his brothers Sigurd the Crusader and Olaf Magnusson, although since Olaf died before adulthood, only Eystein and Sigurd were effective rulers of the country.

While Sigurd gained fame as the "warrior king" (although owed almost exclusively to his three-year crusade to the Holy Land), Eystein was in contrast portrayed in the sagas as the "peace king" who stayed home in Norway and improved the country. As Eystein never engaged in warfare, considerably less information is written and known about him than about his brother Sigurd, despite his twenty-year-long reign, just a few years short of Sigurd. Eystein nonetheless gained the affection of his people, and was highly regarded by the saga writers for his deeds. Eystein and Sigurd's reign became the longest joint rule in Norwegian history.

Although the later saga literature narrates stereotypical accounts about the two kings, Eystein is known to have improved the infrastructure and raised buildings and churches, particularly across the coast in Western Norway and Trøndelag, from Bergen to the fishing centre of Lofoten in the north. Eystein's activities were especially centered in Bergen, which became an important international trade hub for fish at the time, helped by his construction projects. His activities in Bergen included moving the royal seat to a more central location in the city and building a new royal palace, as well as constructing churches and the Munkeliv Abbey.

Eystein died of illness in August 1123, and his brother Sigurd thereby became the sole Norwegian king.

Background
Eystein was born in 1088 or 1089 as the first son of the future king Magnus Barefoot, born to an otherwise unknown mother who is only recorded to have been of "low birth". Upon the death of his father in 1103 during one of his campaigns in Ireland, Eystein became king together with his two brothers Olaf and Sigurd, all of whom had different mothers. Sigurd was about a year younger than Eystein, while Olaf was more than ten years younger than him. Sigurd was the only son who had accompanied their father Magnus on his campaign in the West, but he returned to Norway after Magnus' death.

Many accounts concerning Eystein in later sagas are characterized by literary motifs, and have little value as sources on his life. Snorri Sturluson, the Icelandic author of the early 13th century Heimskringla mastered this literary style particularly well, stylistically and psychologically. His stories includes a so-called mannjevning (literally "comparison of men") between Eystein and Sigurd, in which the two boast about their skills and deeds in an attempt to outdo each other. In a similar fashion, Snorri also tells a story about how Eystein managed to cure the melancholy of a friend, by agreeing to regularly clear time to talk with him about what troubled him. On his physical appearance, Snorri wrote that Eystein "was the handsomest man that could be seen. He had blue open eyes; his hair yellow and curling; his stature not tall, but of the middle size." More reliable information, particularly about Eystein's building-projects, is offered in earlier sagas such as the work of Theodoric the Monk, a Norwegian chronicler who wrote in the late 12th century.

Reign
The co-rule between Eystein, Sigurd and Olaf entailed a shared kingship, and the kingdom itself was not divided into fixed borders. During the early years of their reign, Eystein is nonetheless said to have stayed mostly in Western Norway and Trøndelag, while Sigurd was in Viken. In practice, only Eystein and Sigurd ever ruled as kings, as Olaf was considerably younger and died when he was only seventeen years old, and virtually nothing is known about him beyond his name. One of the earliest acts by the kings was passing a retterbot, a special law ordained by the king, which among other things abolished various royal taxes that originated from the Danish rule of Sweyn Knutsson and Ælfgifu (under Cnut the Great) in the early 1030s. The kings became very popular because of this. According to some sources, the main motivation for abolishing the taxes was to gain the support of the population for Sigurd's planned crusade.

In 1107 or 1108, after years of preparations, Sigurd sailed with a large fleet on a crusade to the Holy Land, the first European king ever to do so. Sigurd arrived back in Norway in 1111. Eystein, on the other hand, did not engage in any warfare, and considerably less information is thus written about him than about Sigurd, although Snorri notes that he "had also effected much in the country that was useful while King Sigurd was on his journey." While Sigurd gained fame in posterity as the "warrior king", although mainly because of his one-time crusade, Eystein was portrayed by the saga writers as the "peace king" who stayed at home and improved the country. Since Sigurd remained king for nineteen years after his crusade with little controversy, historian Claus Krag has considered that the domestic peace probably could be attributed equally to Sigurd. In order to contrast Eystein with Sigurd, Snorri tells a story that Eystein instead subdued Jämtland to the Norwegian crown peacefully through the use of gifts and diplomacy. Despite Snorri's account, historical records indicate that Jämtland did not succumb to Norwegian rule until much later, during the reign of King Sverre in 1178. Eystein and Sigurd are, however, known to have claimed monopoly on the trade and taxation in Finnmarken.

Fish became an increasingly important commodity during Eystein's reign, as more cod was fished in Northern Norway and the demand for stockfish soared in Europe. As the most suitable port, Bergen became the main trade hub for exporting stockfish, including trade connections with Grimsby in England, while it also served to import much needed goods such as grain and flour. To further the trade, Eystein had fishing booths and a church built in the fishing centre at Vågan in Lofoten in Northern Norway, and he sailed north to Lofoten and Trondenes himself in 1114. He also secured the route along the coast by constructing a port in Agdenes on the mouth of the Trondheimsfjord, as well as smaller beacons along the coast. Eystein's port construction in Agdenes was compared by Theodoric the Monk to that of Augustus Caesar at Brundisium, an association readily reflected by Theodoric's use of the Latinised name form "Augustinus" for Eystein. (Otherwise, Pope Callixtus II calls Eystein "Aistano" in a letter.) The existence of a now lost port in Agdenes dated to around Eystein's reign has been supported by recent archaeological surveys in the area. Snorri also says that Eystein had several large dry-docks built in Nidaros, and that he had a large ship built which "in size and shape" resembled the great ship Ormen Lange once built by King Olaf Tryggvason. Eystein also improved the shelters in the mountain passes, notably at Hjerkinn in Dovre, to more comfortable houses with permanent supervision.

In Snorri's mannjevning between Eystein and Sigurd, Eystein allegedly maintains that his own building-projects in Norway were "more useful for the country," than "you [Sigurd] killing bluemen for the devil in Serkland." Eystein was particularly active in Bergen, and his role in the development of the city was probably more important than that of King Olaf Kyrre, the founder of the city according to the sagas. He moved the royal seat in the city from Alrekstad to Holmen on the eastern shore of Vågen, in the city core, thereby rationalising the bureaucracy. At Holmen, he built a Church of the Apostles (probably a stave church) and a St. Nicholas Church, as well as a royal palace which according to Snorri Sturluson was the most imposing wooden building ever raised in Norway (although Theodoric the Monk who wrote earlier already noted it was "now almost collapsed from excessive age"). He also built a St. Michael's Church and founded the Benedictine abbey Munkeliv Abbey at Nordnes, and the tithe to the church was introduced during the reign of Eystein and Sigurd.

Eystein died on 29 August 1123, not long after he was "seized with an illness" during a feast at Hustad in Fræna, Møre og Romsdal. Snorri tells that his body thereafter was taken to Nidaros, and buried in the Nidaros Cathedral. According to Snorri, it was "generally said that so many mourners never stood over any man's grave in Norway as over King Eystein's," at least since the death of Magnus the Good. The reign of Eystein and Sigurd was the longest joint rule in Norwegian history. Sigurd ruled alone after Eystein's death, until Sigurd's own death in 1130.

Family
Eystein married Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter, from a prominent noble family of Gudbrandsdalen. Their marriage was part of Eystein's strategy of building alliances in Eastern Norway. They had a daughter, Maria, who became the mother of the future royal pretender Olaf Ugjæva by her marriage to the lendmann Gudbrand Skavhoggsson. Olaf was named king in 1165, during the Norwegian civil war era, but was subsequently defeated by Magnus Erlingsson and forced to flee the country.

Legacy
Opinions on Eystein have been strongly favourable. Theodoric the Monk wrote about Eystein that he "was a paragon of honesty who governed himself no less than his subjects with moderation and wisdom. He was a king who loved peace, an assiduous manager of public affairs, and above all a fosterer of the Christian religion." Snorri Sturluson later wrote that Eystein "was wise, intelligent, and acquainted with the laws and history. He had much knowledge of mankind, was quick in counsel, prudent in words, and very eloquent and very generous. He was very merry, yet modest; and was liked and beloved, indeed, by all the people." The view of Eystein as a peaceful and domestically active king has been supported by modern historians such as Claus Krag, although noting that the literary embellishments should be disregarded.

A stylized marble bust of Eystein, dated to before the middle of the 12th century, was found during excavations at Munkeliv Abbey in 1853, and it represents the oldest known preserved portrait of a Norwegian king. The bust has the inscription "EYSTEIN REX", and was originally probably part of a full figure statue built into the wall. The headpiece worn on the bust has been said to resemble a German Imperial crown, or to be of a Byzantine type. According to Snorri Sturluson, Eystein had "somewhat large eyes", which seems to correspond with the bust. Since Snorri may have seen the bust in Bergen himself, it is unclear if his account represents an independent source on Eystein's physical appearance. Today, the bust is located in the collections of Bergen Museum.

To commemorate his status as founder of the fishing town Vågan (although it had been an important centre for at least a century), a huge statue of Eystein (Øysteinstatuen) by Arthur Gustavson was raised at Breidablikk in Vågan in 1935, after an idea of architect Harald Sund. At Hjerkinn in Dovre, a church dedicated to Eystein (Eysteinskyrkja) was constructed in 1969 according to a design by Magnus Poulsson, in commemoration of Eystein's construction of a sælehus or shelter near the village.

References

Bibliography
Primary sources
 Sturluson, Snorri (c. 1230). Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and his brothers Eystein and Olaf (in Heimskringla). English translation: Samuel Laing (London, 1844).
 Theodoric the Monk (c. 1180). The Ancient History of the Norwegian Kings. English translation: David and Ian McDougall (London, 1998).
 "Retterbot fra kongene Sigurd, Øystein og Olav Magnussønner" [1103 - 1107], summary in Norwegian. Regesta Norvegica.

Modern literature

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Brightstar, Arkansas

Brightstar is an unincorporated community in Miller County, Arkansas, United States.

Brightstar has been noted for its unusual place name.

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BDC Aero Industrie

BDC Aero Industrie Inc. is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Lachute, Quebec. The company specializes in the manufacture of fixed wing aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the Canadian advanced ultralight, limited and the American light-sport aircraft categories. At one time they also offered kits for amateur construction.

Products
The company's current production aircraft is the BDC Aero Puma, a light-sport aircraft based on the Pluto design by the Italian aircraft designer Antonio Bortolanza. The aircraft was designed in the 1980s and originally called the Pluto and later the Drakken, which is Swedish for "dragon". BDC has produced a further developed version since 2005 under the Puma name.

As of September 2015 the Puma does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved light-sport aircraft, although it is an approved Transport Canada Advanced Ultralight.

In November 2017 the company had one of its aircraft registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and five in Canada registered with Transport Canada.

The company is also developing a five-seat, composite, amphibious turboprop to be designated the PX3000.

Aircraft

References

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Voom HD International

For the American parent company, see Voom HD Networks.

Voom HD was a television channel providing high-definition programming from various genres. The network was available in 35 countries in Europe and Asia.

Programming was taken from the various stations owned by Voom HD Networks in the United States and includes Full Frontal Fashion, Earth Diaries and Gamespotting.

A deal between Rainbow Networks and the Stockholm-based company NonStop Television was made in 2006 that allowed NonStop to distribute the channel in Scandinavia, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic states. The channel was launched in Sweden by satellite distributor Canal Digital on November 1. This was soon followed by launched in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia and Latvia on various providers. The channel was managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting.

In much of the rest of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia the channel was represented by Zonemedia. In April 2007, they launched the channel in the Arab World via the Orbit platform.

Voom HD closed down in Europe on August 31, 2009. In many countries it was replaced by Rush HD. This was the case on the Canal Digital platform, UPC Austria  and in the Czech Republic.

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James McMahon Graham

James McMahon Graham (April 14, 1852 – October 23, 1945) was a United States Representative from Illinois.

Born in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Sangamon County, Illinois in 1868. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and attended Valparaiso University; he was a teacher, lawyer in private practice, and in 1885-1886 a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He was prosecuting attorney for Sangamon County from 1892 to 1896 and a member of the board of education of Springfield, Illinois from 1891 to 1894.

Graham was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1915); he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-fourth Congress in 1914. From 1916 to 1928, he was a member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Library from 1936 to 1945. In the latter year, he died in Springfield; interment was in Calvary Cemetery, Springfield.

In 2010, a memorial plaque was unveiled in his honor at the Iontas Community Resource & Arts Centre in his native Castleblayney in Ireland.

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1992–93 Leicester City F.C. season

During the 1992–93 English football season, Leicester City F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary
Leicester suffered another playoff final defeat at the end of the 1992–93 Division One campaign. They managed to draw level with Swindon Town in the second half after trailing 3–0, only to concede another controversial penalty as they did in last season's play-off final.

Final league table

Results
Leicester City's score comes first

Legend

Football League First Division

First Division play-offs

16 May 1993: Play-off semi final 1st leg against Portsmouth played at City Ground due to reconstruction work at Filbert Street

FA Cup

League Cup

Anglo-Italian Cup

Squad

Left club during the season

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Paul Remlinger

Paul Remlinger (29 December 1871 – 9 March 1964) was a French physician and biologist born in Bertrange, Moselle.

He studied medicine at the Val de Grâce military hospital, supporting his doctoral thesis in 1893 at the University of Lyon with a study on the heredity of tuberculosis. In 1896 he became head of the bacteriology laboratory in Tunis, followed by an assignment to the Constantinople Imperial Bacteriology Institute (1900). Soon afterwards he succeeded Maurice Nicolle (1862-1932) as director of the institute.

In 1914 he relocated to Tangier, where he served at the newly founded Pasteur Institute. He would be associated with the Tangier institute until his retirement in 1957. During World War I he worked as a doctor at Argonne, where he performed research of bacillary dysentery with Julien Dumas (1884-1965).

Remlinger was a leading authority on rabies and rabies vaccination. In 1903 he demonstrated that the causative agent of rabies was a filterable virus.

He was a corresponding member of the Société de biologie (1903), the Académie de Médecine (1919) and the Académie des Sciences (1944). He was a full member of the Société de pathologie exotique (1934), and a founding member of the International Society for Microbiology (1927).

References
 Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur (translated biography)

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Sebastian Schulte

Sebastian Schulte (born 13 December 1978 in Wiesbaden) is a German rower.  He rowed in the 2007 University Boat Race.

See also
 List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews
 Rowing at the Summer Olympics

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No Reason

No Reason may refer to:

Film and television
 "No Reason" (House), an episode of the television series House
 No Reason, a 2010 German horror film directed by Olaf Ittenbach

Music
 "No Reason", a song from the stage musical Beetlejuice
 "No Reason" (Grinspoon song), 2002
 "No Reason", a 1974 song by the Spencer Davis Group from their album Living in a Back Street
 "No Reason", a 2004 song by Sum 41 from their album Chuck

See also
 Reason (disambiguation)


Listing Impossible

Listing Impossible is a television series that premiered on CNBC in January 2020.

See also

 2020 in American television

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2002 Connecticut Huskies football team

The 2002 Connecticut Huskies football team the University of Connecticut in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season as an independent. It was the program's first season as a full-time member at the NCAA Division I-A level. It was also the team's last season at its on-campus football stadium, Memorial Stadium. Head coach Randy Edsall was in his fourth year leading the team.

Despite winning only two of their first eight games, the Huskies finished with a record of 6–6, the first time in its short FBS history that it did not compile a sub-.500 record.  Although not selected for a bowl game, Connecticut was Bowl eligible for the first time. The turning point in the season came after a hard-fought loss at Vanderbilt.  Led by Caulley and sophomore quarterback Dan Orlovsky, the Huskies tore through the remainder of the schedule by defeating the opponents by a combined 199–55.  The winning streak began with the final two games played at Memorial Stadium.  They closed the stadium with their two highest point totals in the stadium's history (61 against Florida Atlantic, and 63 against Kent State.)  They finished the season with their first ever victory over a bowl-bound opponent by defeating Iowa State, 37–20, in Ames, Iowa.

The Huskies offense was led by consensus Freshman All-American, Terry Caulley, who led all freshman in rushing with 1,247 yards.  Despite sitting out two games with injuries, Caulley's rushing total was only 15 yards short of the team's single season record.

Schedule

References

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Choi Hung Road

Choi Hung Road )is a road located in the Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon of Hong Kong. It was first opened to the public in the 1920s as a part of Clear Water Bay Road, yet it was split from the road and named after the Choi Hung Estate in 1963.

Nowadays the road has four lanes for traffic in both ways. Its starting point is at the intersection with Prince Edward Road and it ends at the roundabout at Choi Hung Estate. Choi Hung Road mainly passes through densely-populated residential areas, industrial buildings and leisure areas.

Notable places along the road
Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School (天主教伍華中學)
 Kai Tak Garden (啟德花園))
Choi Hung Road Playground (彩虹道遊樂場)
Rhythm Garden (采頤花園)

See also
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
 San Po Kong

External links

 彩虹道, hk-place.com

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Yeruham Zeisel

Yeruham Zeisel (1909–1987) was the mayor of Haifa from 1975 to 1978.

Yeruham Zeisel was born in 1909 in Tarnov, Galicia, (then Austria-Hungary, today Poland). Zeisel was raised in a Zionist home, and already in his youth was a member of Hashomer Hatzair and a counselor for a group of youths in the "Pioneer" movement. In 1932 he made Aliyah and joined kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. He also worked as a porter in the Post of Haifa, and worked in the digging of fish pools in the area of the swamps of the Ne'eman Valley.

In 1933, Zeisel moved to Haifa, and began work as an electrician for the Israel Electric Corporation. Zeisel was a member of the Haganah, and served as the metalworkers secretary. In 1936, he moved to Kiryat Chaim.

Zeisel was elected to the Haifa city council in 1961, and eight years later, in 1969, he was elected to the position of vice-mayor. Due to the illness of then-mayor Moshe Flimann, Zeisel  was appointed substitute mayor. With Flimann's subsequent death, Zeisel remained in office, and served in that capacity until the election of Yosef Almogi in 1974. Almog's term didn't last long: in 1975 he was chosen to be the chairman of the Jewish Agency and the Histadrut. It was then that Zeisel was elected as mayor of Haifa, and he served until 1978. During his time in office, construction of the promenade in Bat Galim began.

In 1979, Zeisel was chosen to serve as the head of the secondary council of Kiriyat Chaim; he held that post until the day he died.

See also
Sarah and Meir Aharoni, The people and the events of Haifa and the surrounding area, 1993

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Institute for Unpopular Culture

Institute For Unpopular Culture (also known by the acronym, IFUC) is an alternative and outsider culture organization based in San Francisco, California.

History
It was founded in 1989 by David Ferguson.  IFUC's stated objective is to provide a range of services necessary for non-mainstream artists to fulfill their goals of artistic expression: public relations, counseling, business opportunities, and access to equipment. Ferguson says that IFUC provides artists with grants and other funding for their projects.

Ferguson calls his approach to arts patronage 'New Philanthropy'.   Much of the business that takes place at IFUC is volunteer-driven, or works given in trade.
Ferguson has said that IFUC arranged exhibitions of William Noguera's pen and ink photorealism—a sponsorship that raised eyebrows due to Noguera's status as a death row inmate at California's San Quentin State Prison.  Ferguson claims that IFUC has also been associated with performance artist Holly Hughes, one of the infamous NEA Four, a quartet of artists who saw their NEA funding cut off because of concerns of indecency. Other talents Ferguson claims  have benefitted from IFUC backing including graffiti artist Barry McGee (a.k.a. "Twist")  and installation artist Joe Mangrum. Ferguson states that The Institute helped launch the Punk Rock Orchestra, a San Francisco Bay Area music group which performs orchestral arrangements of punk rock classics.

Notes

External links
IFUC website

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White Hot Odyssey

White Hot Odyssey was an American hard rock band formed in Eugene, Oregon in 2002 by Cherry Poppin' Daddies vocalist Steve Perry and guitarist Jason Moss, along with guitarist Mark Rogers, bassist Ed Cole and drummer Jivan Valpey.

Biography
In frontman Steve Perry's words, White Hot Odyssey was an attempt to bring the "roll" back to "rock and roll", an experiment in "sexual, stupid, big dumb rock" reminiscent of the glam, hard rock and protopunk of the 1970s. Perry explained that he had always wanted to front a band of this style since he was an adolescent and listened to groups such as the New York Dolls, The Stooges, Sweet and T. Rex. Having experimented with glam rock under the production supervision of Tony Visconti for the Daddies' 2000 single "Diamond Light Boogie", Perry was inspired to pursue the idea further. In a nod to the extravagant and outlandish fashion of glam rock (and perhaps the early years of the Daddies), i.e. feather boas and other such androgynous attire, White Hot Odyssey was styled around Louis XIV powdered wigs and knee-length pantaloons.

The band originally formed as "Vagiant", playing their first show in early 2003 as an opening act for the Cherry Poppin' Daddies (due to their lavish costumes, however, most people had no idea that it was, in fact, Perry performing in the opening act as well). Shortly afterwards, their name was changed to "Vagiant UK" following the discovery of another band by the name of Vagiant, and finally to "White Hot Odyssey" after their signing to Jive Records to avoid legal complications. The group performed steadily over the next two years, playing major venues throughout the Northwest such as Portland's Crystal Ballroom and Eugene's W.O.W. Hall and McDonald Theatre, often as a supporting act for the Daddies.

In 2004, White Hot Odyssey was signed to Jive Records, largely due to the success that the similarly theatrical hard rock/glam band The Darkness had then seen, and released their self-titled debut in November 2004. Perry was surprised because the same label representative had rejected a similar demo earlier.

White Hot Odyssey played their last show in late 2005. In 2013, Perry re-recorded the White Hot Odyssey song "Subway Killer" for the Daddies' sixth studio album White Teeth, Black Thoughts, re-written in a rockabilly style.

Members
Steve Perry (Le Count d' Monet) – vocals/guitar
Jason Moss (Jace) – guitar
Mark Rogers – guitar
Ed Cole – bass
Jivan Valpey – drums

Discography

Studio albums

Non-album tracks

External links
White Hot Odyssey
Steve Perry's White Hot Odyssey blog at Blogspot.

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W. J. Young

This is about the Irish businessman. For the college basketball coach, go to William J. Young (coach).

William John Young (February 27, 1827 at Belfast, Ireland – June 8, 1896 at Clinton, Iowa) was the founder of the W.J. Young Company.  He revolutionized the slow system of rafting logs by floatage with the current of the river in 1865 by a successful experiment of pushing log rafts ahead of a steam boat, independent of the river currents, and this with his introduction of the system of brail rafting, facilitated the movement of log stock while greatly lessening the expense of delivering them from the booms at Reef Slough and other points, to the mills at various points on the lower river; but for these advantages, the work of the mills would never have reached the vast volume to which they soon attained.  Mr. Young was one of the original members of the Mississippi River Logging Company, his interest in which he sold in 1893, after being for many years one of the most active and influential members of the company.

Family
He married Miss Esther Elderkin of Richmond, Indiana in 1858. They had six children.

Early business years
Few men have acquired equal prominence in the lumber circles of the northwest with that which was accorded to that pioneer lumberman of the Mississippi Valley, W.J. Young of Clinton, Iowa.  Mr. Young came to America in 1846.  For several years he was employed in railroad offices and in ten years was given the position of general freight agent of the Cincinnati, Logansport & Chicago railroad.  In 1858 he settled at Clinton, Iowa, in the retail lumber business of what was then a rapidly developing village, and surrounding country.  About this time (see history of La Crosse, Wisconsin) a company of capitalists who had erected a saw mill at La Crosse, became dissatisfied with the management of their representative at that place, and induced Mr. Young to go there and investigate the conditions of the business.  Upon his representations they decided not only to change their representative but to remove the mill to Clinton, and induced Mr. Young to take charge of the operation.

Building his lumber business
The machinery proved the nucleus of the vast mills and business, which but a few years later, brought Mr. Young's name and extensive operations into a prominence.  In 1860 a new mill was erected, which commenced operations in August.  In the statistical reports for 1873 the record shows there were two mills, built in 1867, with an estimated capacity of  yearly, operating two rotaries, eight gangs and five double edgers, employing 300 operators;. The cut of 1874 is stated at  of lumber and 17,295,000 shingles, that of 1875 being  of lumber and 14,470,000 shingles, showing a rapid evolution from the original mill of up to  per day while much larger, proved inadequate to the growing demands of his rapidly expanding operations.  In twenty years, Mr. Young had become proprietor of the largest saw mill in operation on the American continent.  In his earlier venture, the two Cincinnati men who had been connected with the La Crosse mill, and in whose interest it was removed to Clinton, were partners in the firm known as "W.J. Young & Co.," but a few years later Mr. Young purchased their interests, and formed a connection with John McGraw of Ithaca, New York, who was a member of the firm of Sage & McGraw of Albany, New York and one of the largest lumbermen of the Allegheny region, and with large mills at Saginaw, and at Belle Ewart, Canada, and in connection with him purchased much of the land of the Cornell University of Ithaca, which had been donated by the State of New York from a large grant of Wisconsin lands donated by the general government in aid of its school fund, and which comprised some of the best pine land of Wisconsin.  Under this arrangement the firm name of W.J. Young & Co. was continued until the death of Mr. McGraw, as well as of his daughter Jennie McGraw Fisk, his beneficiary, who died a few years later, when Mr. Young purchased the interest of the estate, and continued the firm name, although being the only party in interest.

Later lumber business development
In 1880 the cut of Mr. Young's mills reached  of lumber and 20,000,000 shingles, of which  of lumber and 8,000,000 shingles was at the close of the season in pile on his yard, for the supply of his now greatly expanded trade, being seasoned before shipment over a vast territory extending in all directions.  The mills of 1892 reported a cut of  of lumber and 39,144,750 shingles, with a stock on hand at the close of the season of  of lumber and 16,600,000 shingles, and at this time no mill in the world could vie with the "big mill" of Mr. Young.  Mr. Young was an invalid from 1893 to his death in 1896, the mills did not operate in 1895-6, and were subsequently run to be a modicum of their capacity, the cut of 1897 being recorded at but  of lumber, 2,000,000 shingles and 1,500,000 lath, a conservative estimate placing the total production since 1858 at  of lumber and 750,000,000 shingles.

Other activities
Mr. Young was active in banking.  He erected and presented to the Methodist denomination at Clinton, the beautiful "Esther Young Chapel."  He purchased and presented to the Young Men's Christian Association of Clinton a beautiful building.  His interest in educational matters was manifested also in liberal gifts to Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa.

He cared little for political honors, but in 1864 yielded to the almost unanimous call of the citizens of Clinton that he should take the mayoralty and the affairs of the city thrived under his administration.  He was for some time president of the Clinton Savings Bank, was a director of the Clinton National bank (http://www.clintonnational.com/).

References
"History of the Lumber and Forest Industry of the Northwest" by George W. Hotchkiss Illustrated Chicago 1898 p. 588-590
"The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
"Iowa Its History and Its Foremost Citizens" The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company 1916 p. 1440
"The Clinton Daily Herald" Tuesday June 12, 1877 p. 4
"The Washington Post" May 23, 1879 p. 1
"The Clinton Herald" Tuesday June 9, 1896
"The Clinton Weekly Age" Vol. 26 No. 24 Friday June 12, 1896 p. 3
"Wolf's History of Clinton 1911" p. 488
"The Iowan" September 1956

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Concasse

Concasse, from the French concasser, "to crush or grind", is a cooking term meaning to rough chop any ingredient, usually vegetables. This term is particularly applied to tomatoes, where tomato concasse is a tomato that has been peeled, seeded (seeds and skins removed), and chopped to specified dimensions. Specified dimensions can be rough chop, small dice, medium dice, or large dice.

The most popular use for tomato concasse is in an Italian bruschetta, typically small dice concasse mixed with olive oil and fresh basil, and sometimes other ingredients such as onion, olives, or anchovies.

Tomato concasse is also added to Béarnaise sauce to produce Choron sauce which is served with lobster dishes buttered.

See also
Brunoise

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