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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, a cultural beacon for the Midwest, will celebrate its 75th anniversary in the coming year with events that honor the generous support and visionary leadership that have shaped the Museum throughout its history. The year of celebration begins with a champagne toast to opening day in 1933 and concludes with a gala affair that is a salute to the Museums future, building on stellar examples of past generations.
Now 75 years since opening day, Dec. 11, 1933, when nearly 8,000 people stood in line to enter the new limestone building, the Nelson-Atkins glows with its new expansion, the Bloch Building. Its encyclopedic collection is one of the finest in the nation.
The Nelson-Atkins is the child of good fortune, said Marc F. Wilson, the Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director/CEO of the Nelson-Atkins. This remarkable Museum has grown and prospered because of just the right combination of people who possessed genius, vision and tenacity.
A Legacy of Generosity
The Nelson-Atkins was the separate dream of two individuals who were vastly different people the flamboyant businessman William Rockhill Nelson and the reclusive schoolteacher Mary McAfee Atkins.
Nelson was the founder of The Kansas City Star, which began in 1880 in what was then a raw frontier town. When he first arrived in Kansas City, Nelson declared it incredibly ugly and commonplace and said, If I were to live here the town must be made over. He made civic improvement and beauty a priority, and when he died in 1915, he left funds for an art collection for the people of Kansas City.
Mary Atkins was a Kentucky schoolteacher who married a Kansas City businessman. After his death, she found solace in the art galleries of Europe and she hoped others would share her inspiration. At the time she died in 1911, she left money to build a museum of fine arts.
The two estates were combined to create the Nelson-Atkins.
On the day the Nelson-Atkins opened to the public in 1933, thousands of people turned out not only to see the new Museum, but also for a rare look at a work on loan, Whistlers Mother. Only the eastern galleries of the Museum were finished.
The west wing was a vast empty shell, a testament to the foresight of the founders, who knew that more space would be essential in the coming years.
Crowds streamed into the new Museum each day, and by the end of December 1933, it was estimated that 100,000 people had visited the new space.
Now 75 years later, the Nelson-Atkins will celebrate with a year of events that include:
A Sparkling Night: A Toast to Our 75th, an event Thursday, Dec. 11, for the Society of Fellows, the Business Council and Friends of Art. The evening will be marked with a champagne toast and a major announcement.
A lively weekend Dec. 13 and 14, Cupcake Kickoff, will feature free cupcakes for all, music hits from each decade since the 1930s, and free admission to the international exhibition Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 18301960. Visitors will be invited to shop the Museum Store for 75 Gifts Under $75.
Unveiling of the new American galleries in the spring of 2009, a landmark in the transformation of the Nelson-Atkins. Visitors will see their first glimpse of a new Grand Hall and galleries that are organized around six key moments in American history, from 1776 to the 1940s.
An All-American Weekend celebration on Mothers Day weekend, May 8, 9 and 10, to celebrate the newly opened American galleries and the opening of the exhibition George Segal: Street Scenes.
Opening of the new American Indian galleries in the fall of 2009, a dramatically expanded installation of more than 200 works. The new galleries will move the Nelson-Atkins to the forefront among preeminent museums in this important field, presenting Native American traditions as a part of the worlds cultural heritage.
An elegant gala affair, Brilliance: A Diamond Celebration, set for February 2010, when supporters of the Nelson-Atkins will gather for a black-tie night to celebrate the success of initiatives pursued during the past year.
The coming year promises to be filled with many significant moments, said Estelle Sosland, chairman of the Nelson-Atkins Board of Trustees. It is a fitting time for us to pay tribute to our founders, who joined their talents and resources to make this magnificent Museum a reality.
We share their passion for art, culture and education and they are our inspiration as we move toward an exciting future.
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Elm Grove, WI…. Cecil McGrew has been hired as the Assistant General Manager and Director of Food & Beverage at Western Racquet Club (WRC).
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LONDON, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
UK companies operating in the high growth Asian region were outperforming their international peers, according to a new Telstra Global survey released today.
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The report identified the top performing businesses in Asia as 'Asia Business Champions' and found UK companies were overrepresented among the star performers, which were defined as the top 5 per cent of companies operating in Asia based on past high performance and future promise of success.
The survey also found that nearly three quarters of UK headquartered businesses had achieved their financial and strategic objectives in the region over the past three years and they were also optimistic about the future outlook for business in the region.
Telstra Global, Head of EMEA and the Americas, Mr Tom Homer said, "Multinationals from around the world are meeting and exceeding their strategic and financial objectives in Asia. As a company with a long track record of operating successfully throughout Asia, we launched Connecting Countries research to quantify the business sentiments of multinationals operating in the region, and to ascertain the attributes and success factors for companies that are excelling in the region."
The first in an annual series, Connecting Countries research is commissioned to benchmark the mind-set and strategies of high performing international firms in Asia.
"UK companies are performing particularly well in Asia, and joining the ranks of the very best performing businesses in Asia," said Mr Homer. "Off the back of that success, UK companies in Asia are a very keen to pursue expansion with almost three quarters saying that expanding into new countries in Asia is important to their success, compared with less than two thirds of all other companies."
"Workers at British companies in Asia are also much more likely to say that they will be working overseas in five years' time, compared to 30 per cent of workers from other countries," added Mr Homer. "Another distinguishing factor of British companies in Asia is the high value of importance placed on bringing senior leaders to local offices with 42 per cent of UK companies saying this is extremely important, compared to 32 per cent of all other companies."
The research identifies a superior category of top performing companies in Asia, termed Asia Business Champions in the report, and categorised as such based on having far exceeded their financial and strategic objectives in the last three years, and their expectation to succeed again in the coming three years. Asia Business Champions comprise top 5 per cent of overall firms in Asia.
"On a global level, the ICT industry is a standout in Asia, with more than 70 per cent of these companies having been very successful in Asia in the past three years, compared to 61 per cent of companies across other sectors," said Mr Homer. "Over the next three years both financial services and insurance companies and those in the ICT sector are most bullish about exceeding their objectives in Asia, with 55 and 51 per cent respectively, compared to 42 per cent overall."
"Besides the promising market conditions, successful companies in Asia have the necessary foundations - strong leadership and communication across global headquarters and local offices, combined with a long term view and investment strategy," concluded Mr Homer.
The Telstra Global Connecting Countries report also revealed:
Multinationals Meeting Strategic and Financial Objectives:
- 83 per cent expect to meet or exceed their financial and strategic objectives over the next three years in Asia; 11per cent expect to far exceed their objectives;
- Companies in the ICT sector are more like to have been very successful in the past three years, 71per cent compared to 61per cent across all sectors;
- Companies in the financial services and insurance sector are more bullish than other industries about exceeding their objectives in the next three years, with 55 per cent compared to 42 per cent overall.
Market Expansion
- 23 per cent of companies see expanding into new markets as extremely important to the success of their firm in the next three years;
- China is the primary growth market for companies who see expansion into new markets as a high priority in Asia over the next three years, 50 per cent nominated China as part of their strategic expansion plans;
- Additionally, companies are also focused on expansion into Singapore (38 %), Hong Kong (33%) and India (32%).
Profile of High Performing Companies in Asia:
- Asia Business Champions are more likely to have a global footprint than others in the study, 82 per cent operate both in and outside of Asia;
- US and UK firms are over-represented in the ranks of the top five per cent - Asia Business Champions. 32% of Asia Business Champions are companies headquartered in the US, compared to a total of 14% of overall respondents being companies from the US. UK companies make up 8 per cent of Asia Business Champions, compared with only 3 per cent of overall respondents being companies headquartered in the UK;
- ICT and financial services companies are also over-represented in the Asia Business Champions category, 15 per cent and 12 per cent respectively, compared with 7 per cent of all businesses.
Top Challenges of Doing Business in Asia:
While the outlook is positive, respondents identified two clear pain-points:
- 31per cent say finding good talent is extremely challenging;
- 29 per cent say companies expecting to see financial returns too quickly is extremely challenging.
Find out more and download the Connecting Countries report: http://www.telstraglobal.com/connectingcountries
Research Methodology
This study was commissioned by Telstra Global and interviewed 4,155 senior executives in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam with professional experience working and studying in a country other than the one they are currently working in. Interviews for this study were conducted online and executives were drawn from databases of business professionals held by market research firm GMI. Additional interviewees were recruited through targeted outreach on LinkedIn and through other professional networks. Interviewees were incentivised with a US$2 donation to their choice of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, WWF or UNICEF. In addition 12 in-depth interviews were conducted with C-level executives in leadership positions with significant professional experience operating across multiple countries. These interviews lasted 75 minutes and were conducted in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta.
About Telstra Global
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Telstra Global is part of Telstra Corporation Limited, the leading telecommunications and information services company of Australia. We provide top-tier international customers across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions including managed network services, data, voice, and satellite solutions. Through our strategic investments over the years, we now own one of the most technologically advanced IP backbone networks in the world, together with our offshore subsidiaries. We have licenses in Asia, Europe and the US and facilitate access to over 1,900 PoPs in 230 countries and territories across the globe.
Media contact: Will Painter, +44(0)2073091131
Email: [email protected]
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|Nov 7, 1978
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|Jul 8, 1977
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This invention relates to door catches and more particularly to a door catch having a shank pivotably mounted to a lever arm and adapted to engage a keeper.
Refrigerator trailers have been subject to more usage and longer hauls. Such conditions render vent doors a necessity on the trailer. The catch on the vent door must be capable of being opened from a distance and be able to close automatically upon the closing of the door. The catch must also be able to exert an opening force on the door sufficient to break any frost seal which has formed around the edges of the door.
One such refrigerator lock is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,240,523 issued to Heimann on Mar. 16, 1966. Heimann discloses a door lock having a housing mounted on the door and a keeper mounted adjacent the door. A rigid handle having a first portion which engages the keeper and a second portion which engages a latch is pivotably mounted on the housing and adapted to move from a locking position to a released position The latch is spring biased to engage the handle portion of the handle. The handle is spring biased to a released position so that when the latch disengages the handle, the vent door is opened.
Another device adapted to be used on refrigerator vent doors is manufactured by Penz Tool and Manufacturing Company in Mishawaka, Indiana. The Penz Tool catch, catalogued as 10-1200-S.S., has a tongue portion pivotably mounted to a handle. The tongue engages a keeper which, when in the open position, abuts against a striker plate to force open the vent door. The handle is pivotably mounted onto two parallel flanges which are transverse to the plate of the door. The flanges have slots. The tongue portion has a roller pin extending therethrough which engages the slot. A spring resilient latch fits through a slot in the handle. The latch is mounted on an axle which extends between the two flanges of the housing. The latch is biased to a latching position and the handle is biased to an open position.
Today's vent doors have seals which give resistance to the door when the door is being fully closed. Such seals are often rubber gaskets lining the door entrance. A door catch must be able to be self-closing when the vent door is shoved closed and also be able to be manually latched. The latch must not prematurely obtain a closed position before the door is closed against the resistance of the seals. The latch must also be economically manufactured.
According to the invention, a door catch device includes a housing mounted on a door. A lever arm is pivotably mounted to the housing for movement between a first and second position. The lever arm is biased to the second position. A shank is pivotably mounted to the lever at a distance from the pivotable mounting of the lever arm to the housing. A guide means connected to the shank guides the shank between a first and second position. The shank is engaged by the keeper when in the first position and disengaged from the keeper when in the second position.
Further according to the invention, a latch is mounted on the shank for engagement with the lever when the shank and lever are in their respective first position and for retaining the shank and lever in the first position against the biasing force of the biasing means. The latch is capable of disengagement from the lever to allow the biasing means to move the lever arm and shank to their second positions.
Preferably, the latch is resiliently mounted on the shank and biased to engage the lever arm when in the first position.
In one embodiment, the latch is mounted on the guide means. The guide means has a portion mounted on the shank. Preferably, this portion is a cylindroid pin. The cylindroid pin extends through slots in the housing. The cylindroid pin is movable between the first and second positions in the slot which corresponds to the first and second positions of the shank and lever arm.
In a specific embodiment, the housing has two flanges transverse to the plane defined by the door. The slots extend through the flanges.
Further according to the invention, guide means include an arcuate track means defining an arc lying in the plane transverse to the plane defined by the door. The arcuate track has a parallel portion with respect to the door and a transverse portion. A track insert means is mounted to the shank for movement in the arcuate track means when the shank is moved between its first and second positions. The track insert means engages the transverse portion of the arcuate track when the shank and lever are in their first position and the track insert engages the parallel section of the arcuate track when the shank and lever are in their second position. Preferably, the arcuate track means consists of slots in the transverse flanges of the housing wherein the slots have an outer arcuate edge. The track insert is preferably the cylindroid pin mounted on the shank and extending through the slots.
Preferably, the slots have an inner edge which define an angle between 20� and 40� with respect to the plate defined by the door and sloped to converge with the door toward the keeper.
It is desirable that the latch mounted on the roller pin extend through a slot in the shank and an aligned slot through the lever arm.
It is also desirable that the latch has a camming means for automatically engaging the lever arm when the lever arm is moved from the second to first position. It is desirable that the latch has limited movement for maintaining proper alignment with both slots in the shank and lever arm.
In one embodiment, a striker plate is positioned between the door and keeper for engagement with a camming surface on the shank for automatically moving the shank to its first position as the door is closed.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the door catch assembly mounted on a vent door of a refrigerated truck trailer.
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the door catch assembly shown in FIG. 1 in the closed position.
FIG. 3 is a side elevational partially broken away view of the door catch assembly taken along the lines 3--3 of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is side elevational view of the door catch assembly shown in FIG. 1 in an open position.
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view showing the latch and shank portion of the door catch assembly shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a back elevational view of the door catch assembly taken along the lines 6--6 of FIG. 3.
Referring to the drawings, particularly FIG. 1, a door catch assembly 10 is mounted on a vent door 12. The vent door 12 is pivotably mounted in an opening in a wall 14 of a refrigerated trailer compartment of a truck (not shown) through conventional hinges 21. As shown in FIG. 3, the door 12 has a metallic cover 13 and a resilient synthetic resin insulation 15. The insulation abuts a sealing surface 11 of the wall 14 to create a seal between the door and the opening when the door is in the closed position. Mounted to the wall 14 adjacent the door is keeper 16. As shown in FIG. 2, the keeper 16 is mounted on a striker plate 17 by fasteners 19. Fasteners 19 also mount striker plate 17 onto the wall 14.
Referring more particularly to FIG. 2, the door catch assembly 10 includes a housing 18. The housing includes a flat rear wall 20 which abuts the outer surface of the door and two L-shaped flanges 22. The flanges 22 are connected to the rear wall by spot welds 24. The flanges 22 have parallel portions 23 transverse to the rear wall 20. The housing is mounted to the door by fasteners 25 which extend through aligned apertures in the flanges 22 and rear wall 20.
The lever arm 26 is pivotably mounted to the housing 18. A rod 28 extends through two flanges 27 of the lever arm 26 and the two flange portions 23. The lever arm pivots about the rod 28. The rod 28 is fixed to the flanges 22.
Slots 49 are positioned at the end of the flanges opposite the rod 28. The slots have an inclined straight edge 50 which is inclined to the plate of the door at approximately 25� for illustrative purposes. Other angles, larger or smaller, in the range of 20� to 40� are also suitable. The slots 49 also have an arcuate edge 52. A portion 52a of the arcuate edge 52 is substantially parallel to the plane of the door. A second portion 52b of the arcuate edge is more transverse to the plane of the door.
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, a spring 30 is mounted on rod 28. The spring has extensions 32 which abut the rear wall 20 and loop 34 which abuts the lever arm for biasing the lever arm to an open position as shown in FIG. 4. The lever arm 26 extends over the edge of the housing and over the keeper 16. The lever arm 26 has a rubber bumper 36 connected at the extended end. At a midportion of the lever is a slot 38.
Referring now to FIGS. 3, 4, and 6, a shank 40 is pivotably mounted to the lever arm 26. A rod 42 extends through apertures in flanges 44 of the shank 40 and through the flanges 27 of the lever arm 26. The rod 42 is fixedly welded to the lever arm while the shank 40 is free to pivot about the rod 42. As shown in FIG. 3, an end portion 45 of shank 40 engages keeper 16. Lever arm 26 extends over keeper 16 and is spaced apart from it. As shown in FIG. 4, flanges 44 of shank 40 extend downwardly to engage the striker plate 17.
A guide rod 47 extends through flanges 44 of shank 40. Guide rod 47 is fixedly welded to the shank 40. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, guide rod 47 extends through slots 49 in flanges 22.
Referring now to FIGS. 5 and 6, a latch 54 is mounted on guide rod 47. The latch extends through slot 56 into shank 40 and slot 38 in lever arm 26. The latch has an upper camming surface 58 and a hook portion 60 as shown in FIG. 4 which engages the edge of slot 38. Latch 54 has an aperture 55 adapted to receive a padlock (not shown).
A spring 62 is mounted on guide rod 47 and has extensions 64 abutting the shank 40 and loop portion 66 abutting the latch 54. Latch 54 is biased to the engagement position with lever arm 26.
As shown in FIG. 2, edge 68 of slot 56 is laterally positioned closer to latch 54 than edge 70 of slot 38.
In operation, the latch is normally in the closed position as shown in FIG. 3 with the shank end 45 engaging the keeper. The hook portion 60 of latch 54 retains the spring biased lever 26 in the closed position. When it is desired for the door to be opened, the operator presses against latch 54 to release hook 60 from lever arm 26. Spring 30 forces lever arm 26 to the open position. Rod 42 fixed to the lever arm 26 follows it outward and pulls the shank to a corresponding open position as shown in FIG. 4. When the shank is moved to the open position, guide pin 47 abuts and slides against the arcuate edge 52 of slot 49 from the position as shown in FIG. 3 to the position shown in FIG. 4. The lower edge 46 of flanges 44 of shank 40 abuts the striker plate 17 to force the door 12 to pivot away from wall 14 such that any frost buildup between the sealing surface 11 and the door 12 is broken by the separation 72 therebetween. The lever arm 26 can then be manually grabbed and pulled to completely open the door 12. Alternatively, the door may be hinged at its bottom for automatic opening due to the force of gravity.
When one desires to close the door, one merely slams it shut. Upon closing of the door, the lower edge 46 of the flanges 44 abuts the striker plate 17 to cam the shank 40 and lever arm 26 to the closed position. Upon closing, the roller pin 47 follows the arcuate edge 52 of slot 49. The parallel portion 52a of the edge 52 allows the roller pin to move whereby the engaging end 45 of the shank 40 at first moves toward the keeper 16 from the striker plate 17 and then as the roller pin engages the transverse section 52b of edge 52, pivots upward to engage the keeper 16. The closing momentum of the door causes the lever arm 26 to achieve a closed position and be latched by hook 60 of latch 54.
In this fashion, a door catch assemby is made which can automatically latch against the resilient force of the seals about the door edge. The door catch also has its lever arm pivoting in the same direction as the door such that manual grasping of the lever arm and an opening force applied to the lever arm is more effective in opening the door and breaking any frost buildup.
Reasonable variation and modification may be made to the above described embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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Like Dr. Johnson, but without the aid of a Boswell, Oscar Wilde is an author whose personality endures more vividly than most of his writings. I hasten to add that The Importance of Being Earnest endures, and so do some of Wilde's essays and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." But, like Rasselas, "The Vanity of Human Wishes," and Johnson's other permanently interesting writings, they comprise a rather modest residue for a lifetime of literary work.
If Wilde's personality has outlasted most of the words be put on paper, it is still a personality intimately connected with his writing. If we may believe his friends, he expressed himself best and most characteristically in his high-spirited, infinitely resourceful, ingenious conversation. When he first came to London, he was an ostentatious "character" who affected an outlandish costume, but his true reputation overcame this notoriety, only to be eclipsed in turn by the scandal that ended his career.
Among his many friends, Wilde enjoyed the greatest distinction as a wit, as an irrepressible dazzler on all occasions. Max Beerbohm told S. N. Behrman: "Well, in the beginning he was the most enchanting company, don't you know. His conversation was so simple and natural and flowing--not at all epigrammatic, which would have been unbearable. He saved that for his plays, thank heaven." Fortunately, Wilde knew enough to preserve his witticisms, and not only the epigrammatic ones. If his rapt listeners did not include a Boswell, he compensated for this deficiency by being his own Boswell, preserving his wit in his literary work. Connoisseurs among his acquaintances preferred hisjokes and stories in the- form he gave them as he spoke, but we who are Wilde's posterity are beggars who cannot be choosers. Accordingly, we read his novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, and such plays as Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband, seeking the occasional plum, the bright remark couched in Wilde's distinctive style. But the witticisms work best in a setting that is worthy of them, and they got such a setting only in The Importance of Being Earnest. Only this work, Wilde's last completed play, is a feast of such plums, the only one of his plays that is consistently written in his highest and wittiest style, the conversational style that belonged peculiarly to Wilde himself.
Invariably, wit comments upon its opposites, slowness of thought and infelicity of expression; implicitly, it ridicules. dullness and solemnity. In his previous plays, Wilde had softened his attack upon ordinary reality by creating some good, dun people who carried on the necessary business of the main plot. But The Importance of Being Earnest, being wholly dedicated to wit, presents good, dull people only to caricature them. The brightly burnished style of this play directly comments upon the drabness of ordinary speech, and, indeed, it defies the real world. Defiance was always part of Wilde's public attitude, but only in The Importance of Being Earnest was he so bold as to make this defiance plain from the beginning to the end of the play. Even his two plain speakers embody a highly stylized plainness, Philistinism cubed, as it were, and the one plainer speaker disappeared while the play was being cut for performance. As it stands, this comedy is the fullest embodiment of Wilde's lifelong assault upon commonplace life and commonplace values. It was inevitable that the conventional world should strike back at Wilde, at his character and his ideas, if not specifically at his play, but the speed and cruelty of the world's retribution surpassed expectation. Four days after the opening of his last and finest comedy, the succession of events began that brought about his disgrace, imprisonment, and exile.
Wilde's defiance, it should be understood, was deeply personal. It was not at all the product of any seriously considered social criticism, but, rather, it stemmed from an individualism supported by a philosophy of art for art's sake. I find it significant that George Woodcock, in the principal study of Wilde's social thought, discovers some trenchant, if incidental, social criticism in the earlier plays, but next to nothing of this element in The Importance of Being Earnest, accordingly, he dismisses Wilde's masterpiece with a single sentence. But this play is not only Wilde's masterpiece; it also has the virtue of expressing its author more fully than any of his other dramatic or narrative writings. Mr. Woodcock to the contrary notwithstanding, it does criticize society, but not from the usual standpoint of social reform. Wilde attacks society on aesthetic grounds, in this play as in his previous works. What he recommends to us, and by implication only, is not social reform, women's suffrage, or child-labor laws, but style--a style of life, of behavior, and of speech. By showing the height of wit and manners, he criticizes their absence. This may not sound much like anyoneelse's's kind of social criticism, but it is Wilde's critique! of society, and it fulfills the logic of his life as an artist up to that moment.
The beginning of his life was surely conducive to individualism, if not to art. He was the product of an eccentric Dublin family--Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, second son of a prominent physician, William Wilde, and Jane Elgee Wilde, who, as "Speranza," wrote articles and verses passionately urging liberty for Ireland. William Wilde was a notorious philanderer and the father of several illegitimate children; once his wife wrote a private letter chiding one of his former mistresses and was promptly sued by the lady in question in an action that anticipated Oscar Wilde's suit against the Marquis of Queensbury for libel by private correspondence. The dramatist was born October 16, 1854, but later so that he might seem even more of a prodigy than he really was, he represented himself as having been born in 1856, a year that is still sometimes recorded as the date of his birth.


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Live entertainment, performers, food and more in the middle of Broad Street
Saturday, April 23, 2016
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As the culminating event of the 15-day Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the 2016 PIFA Street Fair brings a day-long celebration right in the center of Philadelphia.
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will close off Broad Street to traffic and open up the street for an array of festivities and events.
The festival runs from Chestnut to South streets on Broad Street from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Spend the day on the Avenue of the Arts with food vendors, artisans, and exhibitors and enjoy street performances, musicians and family-friendly entertainment.
Performances and Rides
Since the street festival ends the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, guests can expect a solid roster of live performances throughout the day.
The performers consist of international acts and popular performers from previous PIFA festivals. Guests of the festival can look for Lady Pneumatica, a 40-foot tall inflatable music-playing sculpture, a trampoline and acrobatic stunt show, a performance of North African street performers bedecked in jeweled dresses on tall stilts and more.
In addition to performances throughout Broad Street, guests of the festival can look forward to a number of great carnival rides along the street. Guests can experience Broad Street by zip line; ride on a sky-high Ferris wheel; hit giant swings and more.
There will be plenty of natural elements throughout the festival grounds including trees, water fountains and (drumroll, please!) a 25-foot waterfall across from the Academy of Music.
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At Broad and Spruce streets, drinks will flow at a Garces Events-run beer garden and throughout the festival, food from more than 30 vendors including Hai Street Kitchen, the Cow and the Curd, Scratch Biscuits and more will be available for purchase.
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After "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in USA" tags were spotted on some new iMacs, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed Thursday that production of one of the company's existing Mac lines is moving to the US.
Production will ramp up next year. Apple is investing $100 million to produce the things here and will subcontract the work out.
He told Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "We've been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it. It will happen in 2013. We're really proud of it. We could have quickly maybe done just assembly, but it's broader because we wanted to do something more substantial."
The company estimates that it's created more than 600,000 jobs in the US - both directly and indirectly.
Cook told NBC that he felt it was important to create more jobs in the US, which is struggling with 8% unemployment, but he said he can't move all of Apple's manufacturing back from China because America has forgotten how to make things and hasn't got the educational system for modern manufacturing.
He said the reason manufacturers like Apple left the US for Asia wasn't the cheaper labor costs, it was the loss in manufacturing skills and since consumer electronics makers weren't major manufacturers here it's not a matter of coming back but starting up.
He hopes the new Mac project will spur others to bring manufacturing back to the US.
He didn't say which Mac will be produced or where.
Apple originally made its boxes here and so did Steve Jobs when he started NeXT. Apple then went to outsourcing, then hired contract manufacturers overseas. It assembled iMacs in California until 2004.
Now labor costs in China and transportation costs from the Orient are rising.
Cook will give his first on-air interview since being named CEO last year to Brian Williams on NBC Thursday night at 10 o'clock Eastern. It's already posted on the network's web site.
Hinting of the future Cook told Williams, "When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that."
He also told Williams, "I loved Steve dearly, and miss him dearly. And one of the things he did for me, that removed a gigantic burden that would have normally existed, is he told me, on a couple of occasions before he passed away, to never question what he would have done. Never ask the question, 'What Steve would do,' to just do what's right."
When Jobs called Cook in August of 2011 and told him that he would recommend Cook as CEO and that he would serve as chairman Cook said, "I asked him about different scenarios to understand how he wanted to be involved as chairman. He said, 'I want to make this clear. I saw what happened when Walt Disney passed away. People looked around, and they kept asking what Walt would have done.' He goes, 'The business was paralyzed, and people just sat around in meetings and talked about what Walt would have done.' He goes, 'I never want you to ask what I would have done. Just do what's right.' He was very clear."
Apparently both men thought Jobs' health was stable and that he would be chairman for a long time. He died that October.
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To orient ourselves in space, our brain generates an internal coordinate system. Heidelberg researchers now refute the current model on how nerve cells generate this mental map.
The food pellet must be further away—a mouse is foraging for food. To estimate distances and to orient itself in space, the brain forms an internal spatial map. So-called grid neurons take on an important role in this process. They fire when the mouse happens to be at decisive positions.
From a bird's perspective, the activity pattern of a grid cell forms a hexagonal pattern in space—very reminiscent of a coordinate system on a map (see figure). But how is this abstract activity pattern generated that is not based on sensory input from the environment?
To find answers, researchers investigated neuronal connections by means of theoretical models. The currently most promising model is now refuted by scientists from the Bernstein Center Heidelberg/Mannheim and the Department of Clinical Neurobiology at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), who put the model to test in animal experiments.
"In our study, we measured the nerve cell activity in freely moving mice," explains Christina Buetfering, first author of the study. "We were interested in grid cells as well as nerve cells that interconnect the grid cells: so-called interneurons".
The crucial trick: the activity of interneurons could be selectively switched on and off by light signals in genetically modified mice. While the mice moved around during foraging, the researchers activated the cells now and then. This helped them to identify and closely observe the interneurons in the measured data stream. Also, they were able to analyze how grid cells responded to the activity of interneurons—giving a hint on how the neurons must be connected.
The scientists discovered that interneurons show no spatial activity patterns like grid cells do. In addition, individual interneurons are not exclusively connected to grid cells with similar activity patterns. Instead, they get their input signals from very different grid cells and send their output information to diverse nerve cells.
"With these results we were able to refute two basic predictions of the current theoretical network model," Buetfering discusses. "The model assumes that for generating the inner mental map, grid cells of the same spatial orientation must be very closely connected—which was thought to be realized via spatially active interneurons."
However, interneurons seem to have a different main task. The cells send inhibitory signals to quite different neurons in their environment. Therefore, they possibly rather take over a modulating function by ensuring a balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain area during excessive nerve cell activity.
In this way they could prevent epileptic seizures. How grid cells manage to fire at the right time at the right place—thereby generating the abstract mental coordinate system—has, once again, become more mysterious.
The Bernstein Center Heidelberg/Mannheim is part of the National Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience in Germany. With this funding initiative, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has supported the new discipline of Computational Neuroscience since 2004 with over 180 million Euros. The network is named after the German physiologist Julius Bernstein (1835-1917).
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C. Buetfering, K. Allen & H. Monyer (2014): Parvalbumin interneurons provide grid cell-driven recurrent inhibition in the medial entorhinal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, advanced online publication
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