Rene Carpenter (April 12, 1928July 24, 2020) was an American newspaper columnist and host of two Washington, D.C., television shows.
As the wife of Scott Carpenter, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, she was a pioneering member of NASA's early spaceflight families.

Early life and education
Carpenter was born in Clinton, Iowa, on April 12, 1928. Her mother, Olive (Olson) Mason, became one of the first female clerks at the station in Clinton, Iowa, for the Chicago and North Western Railroad. Her husband, Melville Francis Mason, had been a brakeman for Chicago and Northwestern but became unemployed during the Great Depression. They divorced in 1930, when Carpenter was two years old. Her mother would go on to marry Lyle S. Price in 1935. He adopted Rene, and she took the Price surname as her own, becoming Rene Louise Price. The Price family moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 1941, and Rene was educated in the Boulder public schools.

Rene Price attended Boulder High School, writing for the school newspaper The Daily Owl, and graduated in 1946. She went on to study history at the University of Colorado, but dropped her studies when she married in the fall of 1948.

Career

"Astronaut Wife"
In the late 1950s and through the 1960s, the astronauts and their wives became national celebrities, with exclusive LIFE magazine rights to their "personal stories"; the stresses of life in the public eye led the women of Mercury 7 to form an informal support group later called the Astronaut Wives Club. Carpenter was often singled out for her appearance. The Washington Post in 1961 described her as a "striking platinum blonde".
In 1962, Time called her "by anyone's standards a dish". In 1975, People called her "the undisputed prom queen of the early space program." But she also had writing talent. Life published Rene's first-person feature story on her experiences, both as a career military wife and on the events during her husband's May 24, 1962, flight aboard Aurora 7.

In 2015, she was portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski in the miniseries The Astronaut Wives Club, based on the 2013 book by the same title. Carpenter herself was critical of both the book and the show, telling the Washington Post, it was "pure fiction."

Rene Carpenter has been credited for volunteering her husband for spaceflight. But Scott Carpenter, then a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, had already been identified as a candidate for Project Mercury at Phase 1, in late 1958, and had reported to the Pentagon in February 1959 for the Phase 2 briefings and interviews. It was at the Pentagon that Carpenter volunteered to proceed with the selection process. In late February 1959, with her husband aboard the USS Hornet on sea trials, Rene intercepted a letter from NASA inviting Scott to report to the Lovelace Clinic for the Phase 3 selection trials. The USN lieutenant commander had been asked to reply "by Monday." Rene opened the letter on a Tuesday morning, immediately calling the telephone number supplied, reaching NASA's manpower director Dr. Allen O. Gamble: "We volunteer," Rene exclaimed to a startled Dr. Gamble. Carpenter would report to Lovelace in March with his small group and was ultimately selected as a Project Mercury astronaut. She began writing her syndicated column, "A Woman, Still", in 1965, ending the column in 1969. After their divorce, and at the invitation of Washington Post publisher Kay Graham, who owned the local CBS affiliate, WTOP, Rene developed and hosted a TV show entitled Everywoman, airing weekly on Saturday night. It took on then-controversial themes of the feminist movement.

Politics
In 1968, she campaigned for Robert Kennedy. She had a syndicated women's page column, "A Woman, Still", and from 1972 to 1976, was a television host, first with Everywoman and then with Nine in the Morning. She worked for Committee for National Health Insurance.

Personal life
She first met Scott Carpenter when she was working as an 'usherette' at the Boulder Theater, where her husband-to-be was also an usher. They married in Boulder, Colorado, St. John's Episcopal Church, September 9, 1948. In November 1949, their first child, Marc Scott, was born in Boulder; thirteen months later, at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, Rene and Scott welcomed a second son, Timothy. "Timmy" died at age six months, in San Diego, where her husband was preparing for his tour of duty in the Korean conflict (1951–1954). The couple had three more children.

Scott Carpenter resigned from NASA in August 1967 and moved with Rene and their children to Bethesda, Md., where the U.S. Navy's Deep Sea Submergence Project (SEALAB) was headquartered. Rene continued writing her column until she and Scott separated in 1969, the year Scott Carpenter resigned his U.S. Navy commission; the couple divorced in 1972. She married Lester H. Shor, a builder and real estate developer, in 1977. She continued to use her professional name, Rene Carpenter.

Rene Carpenter died of congestive heart failure on July 24, 2020, in a Denver hospital. She was 92. Of the fourteen men and women of Project Mercury, Rene was the last surviving member; Annie Glenn had died two months earlier, on May 19, 2020.

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(French for veil) is a soft, sheer fabric, usually made of 99% cotton or cotton blended with linen or polyester. The term is because of its light weight, the fabric is mostly used in soft furnishing. In tropical climates, voile is used for window treatments and mosquito nets. When used as curtain material, voile is similar to net curtains.

Voiles are available in a range of patterns and colours.  Because of their semitransparent quality, voile curtains are made using  heading tape that is less easily noticeable through the fabric.  Voile fabric is also used in dressmaking, either in multiple layers or laid over a second material. It is similar to chiffon.

Material types
Light-penetrable sheer fabrics include voile, muslin, and lace.  These can be broadly divided into two groups based on method of production.  The first are the natural fibers such as cotton and silk.  The second group is prepared from a man-made fiber. This kind of synthetic sheer is extracted from raw material such as wood pulp or petroleum. They are robust and sturdy, yet still delicate looking, and tend to take dye well.  They are often used as window dressing as they fall into soft folds that are appropriate for scarf swags. In music, a voile refers to the cloth used to muffle a drum.

See also
Marquisette
Organza

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Osama Alomar (Arabic: اسامة الحويج العمر) born Damascus, Syria, 1968, is a Syrian short story writer poet and essayist. He is especially recognized for his work in the "very short story" medium. He has published three fiction collections in Arabic: أيها الانسان (O Man), ربطة لسان (Tongue Tie), and جميع الحقوق غير محفوظة (All Rights Not Reserved), as well as one volume of poetry, قال إنسان العصر الحديث (Man Said the Modern World). The 2007 winner of Egypt's Najlaa Muharam Short Story Contest, his work has been heard on the BBC Arabic Service and he is a regular contributor to various newspapers and journals in Syria and the Arab community, including Tishrin, an-Nur, Spot Light, al-Halil, Adab wa Naqd, and al-Ghad. His work has appeared in English translation in Noon (Literary Annual), Gigantic (magazine), Coffin Factory, and The Literary Review, as well as the online journals Conjunctions and The Outlet. Alomar is currently based in Chicago.

Bibliography

Works in Arabic
 أيها الانسان (O Man). Beirut, 1999. Short Stories.
 قال إنسان العصر الحديث (Man Said the Modern World). Damascus, 2000. Poetry.
 ربطة لسان (Tongue Tie). Damascus, 2003. Short Stories and Meditations.
 جميع الحقوق غير محفوظة (All Rights Not Reserved), 2008. Short Stories.

Publications in English
 "Seven Very Short Stories" in Noon 2010.
 "Eleven Stories" in Web Conjunctions, May 3, 2011.
 "Two Stories by Osama Alomar" in The Outlet, March 18, 2011.
 "Breaking News" (10 stories) in "Coffin Factory" vol. 1, #2, February 2012.
 "Selections from All Rights Not Reserved, Tongue Tie, and O Man." in "The Literary Review" vol.55, no. 2 (Spring 2012).
 "Fullblood Arabian" translated by C. J. Collins with the author, a New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
 "Four Very Short Stories" in "Gigantic" issue 6, October 2014.
 The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories translated by C. J. Collins with the author. New Directions, 2017.

External links
 Noon 2010
 The Outlet
 Web Conjunctions
 Coffin Factory

Writers from Damascus
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The Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area is a National Wildlife Area (NWA) located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the National Provincial Capital Region of Quebec, established on 28 April 1978. It is one of the critical habitats for the greater snow goose during migration. Flocks of tens of thousands of these birds stop over to feed on the bullrushes in the spring and fall. The tidal marsh was recognized as a wetland of international significance per the Ramsar Convention in 1981, the first North American site to receive that distinction.

Location
Cap Tourmente is 50 km from Quebec City, and sits on the St. Lawrence River. The park is part of Saint-Joachim municipality. The location of the park sits at an intersection of Appalachian Mountains, Canadian Shield, the St. Lawrence Lowlands. Because of this, the park has a wide range of mountain views, marshlands, and plains, leading to diverse habitats and a diversity of plant and animal species. The marshlands of the park serve as many birds' migratory stopovers and breeding areas, which contributes to its importance as a protected area. The area is located at 47°03.860' N 70°47.774' W.

History
A number of prehistoric Amerindian artifacts are found on the coastal plain, providing evidence of the presence of Indigenous peoples for over 2,000 years, starting at least 2,400 years ago. The evidence suggests the area was occupied by small bands of St. Lawrence Iroquoians, who were the dominant group in the St. Lawrence Valley for several centuries before the arrival of Europeans. They subsisted on agriculture, hunting and fishing in the St. Lawrence Valley region. In the late 16th century, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians mysteriously disappeared, abandoning their former territories sometime between the last voyage of the French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1541—Cap Tourmente was the first land fall for Jacques Cartier in 1535—and the subsequent expedition of Samuel de Champlain in 1603.

Within the wildlife refuge is a historic farm site, La Petite-Ferme du cap Tourmente, which was begun by Samuel de Champlain in 1626, as a food source for the fledgling Habitation at Quebec City. Later, the farm was purchased and run for nearly 300 years by and for the Seminary of Quebec. A farm house built around 1667 still stands, and is at the core of La Petite-Ferme du cap Tourmente National Historic Site, designated in 2018.

The Canadian government acquired the area in 1969. It was later recognised as a National Wildlife Area in 1978 and as a wetland of significance per the Ramsar Convention in 1981.

Wildlife
The Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area has a wide range of habitats and comprises 400 hectares of tidal marsh, 100 hectares of coastal meadow, 700 ha hectares agricultural land and 1198 hectares of forest. It is the home to a wide range of animals and plants, including more than 200 animal species and 700 plant species. The intertidal bulrush, coastal bulrush and coastal plain and mixed-forest plateau provides crucial habitat for the staging of migratory birds and serves as birds' breeding ground. The keystone species of the NWA includes greater snow goose, peregrine falcon, and warblers in spring.

Plants

Intertidal marsh
The Cap Tourmente NWA was created mainly to protect the vast amount of intertidal marshes that are present in the NWA, especially the American bulrushes, which attracts tens of thousands of greater snow geese during the spring and fall migration period. These marshes occupy 2,500 hectares and include close to 60% of all the bulrush marshes in Québec. Heavy tidal flooding by fresh waters on the coastal flats covers a large amount of intertidal marsh. The intertidal marshes in the NWA can be divided into three separate zones, including the upper, middle, and the lower zone. All three zones are predominantly dominated by American bulrushes. Southern wild rice (Zizania aquatica) and broad-leaved arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) are also present in the upper and the middle zone. According to a study conducted in the NWA, the American bulrush has decreased significantly in the intertidal marsh during the year 1977 and 2002, and is being replaced by southern wild rice. But the American bulrushes remain the dominant species in all three zones. The plants in the intertidal marsh are crucial in protecting the coastal area from coastal erosion, and can serve as food for the snow geese. Other animals also feed on these bulrushes, such as American Black Duck, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, and Wood Duck.

Forested areas
The forested areas in the NWA covered around 40% of the total area. There are 21 types of forest stands found in the NWA, and sugar maple stands dominate the area.

Listed Plant Species under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) include Victorin's water-hemlock and butternut. Habitat loss remains as the largest threat to the plants species in the region.

Animals

Birds
The Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area is one of the 325 Important Birds Area (IBA) in Canada, categorised under the A4 criteria.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the population of greater snow geese was dangerously low at only around 3,000 individuals. However, after conservation efforts like the establishment of the NWA, their population started to grow exponentially in the mid-1980s, and is now close to one million. During their biennial journey between the Atlantic coast and the Far North, greater snow geese stop in Cap Tourmente NWA where they feed on American bulrush rhizomes and also grain in the fields. At 2021, up to 56,500 greater snow geese were counted at Cap Tourmente NWA.

In the spring, they gather at the Lac-Saint-Pierre and other sites, moving west to east along the St. Lawrence River, before they head north. In the fall, the birds disperse from the Quebec City area in late October and move a short distance southwest towards Lac-Saint-Pierre or northern Lake Champlain, where they feed in corn fields and where some remain well into November and December. Cap Tourmente's location lies right next to their path of migration, which makes the NWA such an important part in the survival of this species.

At Cap Tourmente, bird species listed under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) include peregrine falcon (anatum/tundrius), bobolink, wood thrush, short-eared owl, bank swallow, barn swallow, chimney swift, olive-sided flycatcher, Canada warbler, least bittern, loggerhead shrike (migrans subspecies), rusty blackbird, yellow rail, and eastern meadowlark.

Fish
The strong tides bring  slightly salty water from the river to the coastal region. The herbaceous environment with shallow water makes an ideal environment for fish species to spawn there, such as yellow perch, the northern pike, and the three-spined stickleback.

Habitat loss and obstacles to migration area the main threats to the fish species in the region. Other potential threats includes oil spill from the upper part of the river and other source of water pollution from human activities.

Management
Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Wildlife Service) is the management agency of the NWA.

Hunting
When the territory was acquired by the federal government in 1969, all hunting activities were suspended. Since 1972, the Canadian Wildlife Service began its controlled hunting program in order to regulate the great snow goose population. The hunting programme was introduced to control the goose population and prevent overuse of the bulrush marsh and fields in the NWA or adjacent fields. In the fall, a controlled greater snow goose hunt is authorised in eight hunting grounds grouped into four zones with a total area of approximately 53 hectares. Participants are selected through a draw to decide the maximum of 512 permits. During the annual Waterfowler hunting day, permits are issued to maximum 12 young hunters to practice their waterfowl hunting skills and learn about wildlife conservation during the regular hunting season.

In 2009 and 2010, an experimental licence was issued to the Association des Amis du Cap Tourmente, but the licence was not renewed afterwards.

The 2022 Hunt Program for the Greater Snow Goose is cancelled due to covid-19 concerns.

Invasive species
Nine plants are considered invasive. Cow parsley, hedge bedstraw, and reed mannagrass are ubiquitous, and the common reed and Japanese knotweed are among the most threatening invasive species in the NWA.

Park attractions
This park can be considered a nature attraction, where visitors are permitted to enter during set times with a small entry fee (up to $6 for adults) until a closing time at 5pm on most days of the week. The park can see up to 40,000 visitors per year, with the attractions being hiking trails, nature observation, bird watching, picnic areas, and planned school trips. The official websites recommend spending from 2-4 hours per visit to the park. With its location, the park itself is home to many migratory birds with the main attraction being the greater snow geese flocks.

References

External links

Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area at Environment Canada

Ramsar sites in Canada
Protected areas of Capitale-Nationale
Nature centres in Canada
National Wildlife Areas of Canada
Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia

Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area


Arktikum is a museum and science centre in Rovaniemi, Finland.  The building is also a popular culture destination and venue for meetings and conferences and has a cafe and library to serve the customers. Two separate exhibitions operate at Arktikum, the Arctic Center, and the Provincial Museum of Lapland.

Exhibitions
The exhibitions at the Provincial Museum of Lapland and the Arctic Center examine culture, history, and modern life in the Arctic. Concepts such as human life in tune with nature are explored in depth. There are also temporary exhibitions in Arktikum.

History
Arktikum opened to the public on 6 December 1992, the 75th anniversary of Finland's independence. It was designed by Danish architect group Birch-Bonderup & Thorup-Waade. The crescent-shaped new annex was designed by Claus Bonderup and Janne Lehtipalo, and it was completed in autumn 1997.

Architecture
Plenty of local natural materials have been used in the building: the floors are made from Perttaus granite – the hardest type available in Finland – and from lime-washed Lappish pine. The chairs are made from birch and reindeer hide.

The most visible part of the museum, its glass corridor, is 172 metres long in all and it is bisected by the 30-metre wide Kittilä highway. The tube serves as the "Gateway to the North", as the entrance foyer is at the southern end and guests head north when coming in. The exhibition space is sheltered below the ground, mimicking the way animals in the North take cover from the harsh, cold winter by burrowing under the snow.

Awards
According to Topworld International, the museum is the 4th best travel attraction in Finland.

Gallery

External links

 Official website

Science museums in Finland
Rovaniemi
Museums in Lapland (Finland)

Arktikum Science Museum


Publius Decius Mus was a Roman politician and general of the plebeian gens Decia. He was the son of Publius Decius Mus, who was consul in 312 BC. As consul in 279 BC, he and his fellow consul, Publius Sulpicius Saverrio, combined their armies against Pyrrhus of Epirus at the Battle of Asculum.

Pyrrhus was victorious, but at such a high cost that the security of Asculum was guaranteed. This is the origin of the term "Pyrrhic victory". According to one tradition, Decius died in the field; according to another, he survived.

Both his father and grandfather had fallen in battle after performing the ritual of devotio before the troops, before rushing the enemy. According to one report, Mus was planning to do the same at Asculum.

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Publius Decius Mus (consul 279 BC)


Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (; 21 October 18174 June 1894) was a German economist from Hanover.

Biography
Roscher studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848.

The main origins of the historical school of political economy may be traced to Roscher. Its fundamental principles are dated to his Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die Staatswirtschaft nach geschichtlicher Methode (1843). Politically, Roscher remained faithful to the liberalism of Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, which abjured revolution and anarchy but favored reform within the context of a constitutional monarchy. Historical economics began as a means of adjusting liberal thought and practice to the realities of the social question, namely: what should be done about the consequences of economic modernization and the classes displaced or exploited by the new industries.

Roscher tried to establish the laws of economic development by using the historical method from the investigation of histories legal, political, cultural and other aspects.

Roscher developed a cyclical theory where nations and their economies pass through youth, manhood and senile decay: "The method of a science is of greater significance by far than any single discovery, however amazing the later may be." This was in direct contrast to the English traditional economist who believed that the principles of a science were only exposed long after they had performed their duties.

This short study was afterwards expanded into his great System der Volkswirthschaft, published in five volumes between 1854 and 1894, and arranged as follows:
 vol. i., Die Grundlagen der National Ökonomie, 1854 (trans. by JJ Lalor, Principles of Political Economy, Chicago, 1878) (Volume One, Volume Two)
 vol. ii., Die Nationalökonomik des Ackerbaues und der verwandten Urproduktionen, 1859
 vol. iii., Die Nationalökonomik des Handels und Gewerbfleisses, 1881
 vol. iv., System der Finanzwissenschaft, 1886
 vol. v., System der Armenpflege und Armenpolitik, 1894

His Geschichte der Nationalökonomie in Deutschland (1874) is a monumental work.

He also published in 1842 an excellent commentary on the life and works of Thucydides. In 1847 he was the first to use the term "enlightened absolutism" about the type of absolute monarchy influenced by contemporary philosophy that evolved in the 18th century.

In 1857 his Zur Geschichte der Englischen Volkswirthschaftslehre im sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert (On the History of English Political Economy in the 16th and 17th Century) was published.

In 1870, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Roscher died in 1894 in Leipzig. The classical scholar Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1845–1923) was his son.

Notes

References
 Theodor Roscher, Zur Geschichte der Familie Roscher in Niedersachsen (Hanover, 1892)
 Moritz Brasch, Wilhelm Roscher und die sozialwissenschaftlichen Strömungen der Gegenwart (Leipzig, 1895).

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Scott Davidson was a session musician, playing the keyboard, with Bros and Pet Shop Boys, before founding the Trade-It free advert paper and becoming a director and then chairman of Bristol City FC from 1996-2001. In 2003 Davidson was a co-founder of The Big Fundraiser, now known as The Invitation Book, a discount voucher annual which aims to raise money for charities, based on an American publication, Entertainment. He also has interests in software development, property, manufacturing and publishing in Ireland. His current project is vouchercloud.com the digital voucher and discount platform which is responsible for the iPhone and Android app vouchercloud.

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In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce, also spelled Leuke, (, "White", specifically "White Poplar") was a nymph and a daughter of the Titan Oceanus.

Mythology
Hades fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld. She lived out the span of her life in his realm, and when she died, the god turned her into a white poplar which he placed in the Elysian Fields. To celebrate his return from the underworld, the hero Heracles crowned himself with a branch of this tree.

Mythology of the poplar

Maurus Servius Honoratus identifies the tree as the white poplar, the leaf of which is distinctively two-sided, one white and one dark. The double color, Servius says, made a wreath that represented the duality of the hero's labors in both the upper and the underworld. The association of white poplar leaves with Herakles is also attested by archaeological remains, such as the poplar-leaf motif carved on a statue base found in a small sanctuary to Herakles (Roman Hercules) along the Tiber river.  It has been suggested that behind the vague outlines of this tale lurks an older myth having to do with Herakles' encounter with the river deity Achelous, who had chthonic associations and whose name was the subject of speculative theological etymology among the Greeks, in this case involving acherōïs, another Greek word for "poplar."  In a founding myth of the 1st century BC, Herakles is supposed to have established the Arvernian oppidum of Alesia, the name of which likely derives from the Gaulish word for poplar.

Celebrants of the Bacchic rites wore a wreath of poplar leaves to honor the chthonic aspect of Dionysus.

At Elis, white poplar was the only wood used in sacrifices to Zeus, according to Pausanias, because Herakles imported the tree and used it to burn the thigh bones of sacrificial victims at Olympia. The oak is the customary sacred tree of Zeus, and the substitution among the Eleans may simply reflect the more widespread growth habit of the poplar there. The hero was supposed to have discovered the tree growing on the banks of the upperworld Acheron in Thesprotia.
Pausanias says this is the reason for the Homeric epithet Acherōïda for the white poplar, which was also called leukē in Greek.

The white poplar might be worn as a crown at athletic contests in honor of Herakles, a patron of the Olympic games. Its infernal origin made it appropriate for funeral games, which played an important role in the development of Greek athletics.

The white poplar was also sacred to Persephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet or epithet, as a goddess of regeneration. Robert Graves used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Graves, for instance, holds that the back of the poplar leaf was turned white by the sweat of Herakles. In The White Goddess, he names the white poplar as one of the "three trees of resurrection", along with alder and cypress.

See also
 Minthe
 Hyacinthus
 Crocus

References

External links
 LEUCE on The Theoi Project

Trees in mythology
Metamorphoses into trees in Greek mythology
Women of Hades
Chthonic beings
Oceanids
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David Lauren (born October 31, 1971) is an American businessman. He is the middle child and youngest son of clothing designer Ralph Lauren and husband of Lauren Bush.

Early life
David Lauren was born on October 31, 1971, to Ricky Ann (née Loew-Beer) and fashion designer and businessman Ralph Lauren. His father is the son of Belarus-born Jewish immigrants. His mother is the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, both immigrants from Austria. The second of three children, Lauren has an older brother, Andrew Lauren, and a younger sister, Dylan Lauren.

Lauren attended Duke University, where he studied political science. At Duke, he founded Swing, a general interest lifestyle publication for Generation X, where he served as president and editor-in-chief. Swing was eventually published by Hachette Filipacchi Médias.

Career
Lauren is currently the Chief Innovation Officer, Strategic Advisor to the CEO, Head of the Ralph Lauren Foundation and Vice Chairman of the Board. Lauren previously held the position of Executive Vice President, Global Advertising, Marketing and Communications at Ralph Lauren Corporation where he was responsible for the global advertising and marketing campaigns for the company and all of its brands, as well as the company's corporate and fashion communications and strategic marketing partnerships.

Lauren joined Ralph Lauren Corporation in 2000 to run the company's internet operations with Ralph Lauren Media, LLC., where he launched the Ralph Lauren website under an idea he called "merchan-tainment", or the combination of merchandising and entertainment.

In his time at Ralph Lauren Corporation, Lauren has played a role in many key initiatives, including the establishment of RalphLauren.com, the launch of the Rugby brand, and Ralph Lauren Corporation's entry into mobile applications. Lauren has also orchestrated the company's sponsorship of several international sporting events and teams, including Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the U.S. Olympic teams. In 2007, he was named Daily News Record "Marketer of the Year".

Lauren joined the Board of Directors of Ralph Lauren Corporation in August 2013.

Philanthropy
Lauren serves as president of the Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation, with which he participates in numerous charitable organizations, including the Pink Pony fund, the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, the Polo Jeans G.I.V.E. program, and the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Lauren has sat on the Board of Trustees of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital since 2023.

Personal life

On September 4, 2011, Lauren married Lauren Bush, a granddaughter of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, in Colorado. Their son James Richard Lauren was born November 21, 2015.
Their second son, Max Walker Lauren, was born in 2018. Their third son, Robert Rocky Lauren, was born on April 10, 2021.

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Come Out, Ye Black and Tans er írskt þjóðlag samið af írska lagahöfundinum og söngvaranum Dominic Behan.

Texti

Come Out, Ye Black and Tans

I was born in a Dublin street,
where the loyal drums did beat,
the loving English feet, they walked all over us,
and every single night,
when me da' would come home tight,
he'd invite the neighbours out with this chorus:

Come out ye' black and tans!
Come out and fight me like a man!
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders!
Tell her how the IRA,
made you run like hell away,
from the green and lovely lanes of Killeshandra!

Írsk þjóðlög

Come Out, Ye Black and Tans


The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe ("Saint Apollinaris in Classe") is a church in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, consecrated on 9 May 549 by the bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris, the first bishop of Ravenna and Classe.

An important monument of Byzantine art, in 1996 it was inscribed with seven other nearby monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage List, which described it as "an outstanding example of the early Christian basilica in its purity and simplicity of its design and use of space and in the sumptuous nature of its decoration".

History
Work on Sant'Apollinare in Classe started at the beginning of 6th century by order of Bishop Ursicinus, using money from the Roman banker Iulianus Argentarius. It was certainly located next to a Christian cemetery, and quite possibly on top of a pre-existing pagan one, as some of the ancient tombstones were re-used in its construction.

At that time, Classe was located on the shore and was the ancient home port of the Roman fleet which gave its name to the town. Due to the accumulation of silt, the coastline has since moved  to the east.

The imposing brick structure was consecrated on 9 May 549 by Bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris. The Basilica is thus contemporary with the Basilica of San Vitale of Ravenna. The relics of Saint Apollinaris are today in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.

In the 15th century, Sigismondo Malatesta stripped the church of the marble covering the walls of the side aisles, to use it for the construction of the Tempio Malatestiano of San Francesco in Rimini.

Architecture

Exterior
The exterior has a large facade with two simple uprights and one mullioned window with three openings. The narthex and building to the right of the entry are later additions, as is the fine 9th century round bell tower with mullioned windows.

Ravenna's tallest campanile was added to the church in the late 10th century.

Interior
The church has a central nave with two side aisles, a standard basilica design. An ancient altar in the mid of the nave covers the place of the saint's martyrdom. The church ends with a polygonal apse, sided by two chapels with apses.

The nave contains 24 columns of Italian marble. The carved capitals of the columns depict acanthus leaves, but unlike most such carvings the leaves appear twisted as if being buffeted by the wind. The faded frescos depict some of the archbishops of Ravenna, and date to the 18th century. The lateral walls are bare, but were certainly once covered with gorgeous mosaics. These were likely demolished by the Venetians in 1449, although they left the mosaic decoration in the apse and on the triumphal arch, the church's most striking features.

The upper section of the triumphal arch depicts, inside a medallion, Christ. At the sides, within a sea of clouds, are the winged symbols of the four Evangelists: the Eagle (John), the Winged Man (Matthew), the Lion (Mark), the Calf (Luke). The lower section has, at its two edges, the walls showing precious gems from which twelve lambs (symbols of the Twelve Apostles) exit. The sides of the arch show two palms which, in the Bible's symbolism, represent justice; under them are the archangels Michael and Gabriel, with the bust of St. Matthew and another unidentified saint.

The decoration of the apse date to the 6th century, and can be divided into two parts:

in the upper one, a large disc encloses a starry sky in which is a cross with gems. Over the cross is a hand protruding from the clouds, the theme of the Hand of God. At the side of the disc are the figures of Elijah and Moses. The three lambs in the lower sector symbolize the saints Peter, James and John, alluding the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor.
in the lower one is a green valley with rocks, bush, plants and birds. In the middle is the figure of Saint Apollinaris, portrayed in the act of praying God to give grace to his faithful, symbolized by twelve white lambs.

The choice of the subject is closely linked to the fight against Arianism, as it restates both the divine and human nature of Christ, the former negated by the Arians. In addition, the representation of Apollinaris among the apostles was a legitimization of Maximian as the first bishop of the diocese.

In the spaces between the windows are the four bishops who founded the main basilicas in Ravenna: Urscinus, Ursus, Severus and Ecclesius, all with a book in a hand. At the sides of the apse are two 7th-century panels: the left one, which has largely been restored, portrays the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV granting privileges to an envoy of the Ravenna's archbishop. In the right panel are Abraham, Abel and Melchisedek around an altar, on which they offer a sacrifice to God.

The Basilica's walls are lined by numerous sarcophagi from different centuries. They attest the changes of style from the 5th to the 8th centuries: from reliefs with human figures of the Roman sarcophagi, to Byzantine symbolism, to the increasing abstraction and simplification of these symbologies.

References

Further reading
Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 505, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

External links

Photos
Ravenna Tourism site

549 establishments
6th-century churches
Palaeo-Christian architecture in Ravenna
Apollinare in Classe
Byzantine art
Early Christian art

Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe


José María of Manila ( : 5 September 1880 – 17 August 1936) was a Filipino-born Spanish Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Filipino to have been declared blessed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Biography
José María was born in Manila, Philippines on 5 September 1880 to Spanish parents Don Eugenio del Saz-Orozco de la Oz, the last Spanish Mayor of Manila, and Doña Felisa Mortera y Camacho. He spent his initial years of education at Ateneo de Manila University, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, and University of Santo Tomas.

He stayed in the Philippines until he was 16 years old, pursuing further studies in Spain. Despite objections from his parents, according to López, José María fulfilled his desire to become a Capuchin priest. Records also showed that he had his simple profession in Lecaroz in Navarra on 4 October 1905, while his solemn profession was held 18 October 1908. He was ordained a priest on 30 November 1910.

José María "remained a Filipino at heart" throughout his years in Spain, desiring to return to the Philippines to serve the local Philippine Church despite the fall of the Spanish East Indies government in 1898 due to the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish–American War. Circumstances prevented him from returning, and so he resolved to zealously proclaim the Gospel in Spain, which was still suffering from poverty brought about by World War I.

There was a growing tide of anti-Catholicism and anti-clericalism in Spain, as critics accused the Church of conspiring with the government to keep the people poor. The effects of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and later the Great Depression that pushed the working class to their limits, and military generals took advantage of the situation by staging an uprising in July 1936 that began the Spanish Civil War. Church property was seized or destroyed, and priests and religious were imprisoned. On 17 August 1936, José María was executed at the gardens of the Cuartel de la Montaña, a military building in Madrid.

Beatification

On 27 March 2013, Pope Francis approved the findings of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints that José María and 521 other companions were indeed killed because of their Roman Catholic faith, clearing the way for their beatification. These twentieth-century martyrs of the religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War were beatified on 13 October 2013 in Tarragona, Spain. The Beatification Rite and Mass was presided by the cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, who read the Apostolic Letter declaring the martyrs "Blessed" and setting their common feast day every 6 November, together with other previously beatified martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.

Martyr Companions
The Martyr Companions of Blessed José María de Manila who were also Franciscan Capuchins and were martyred during the Spanish Civil War include:

Miguel Francisco Gonzalez-Diez (Andres of Palazuelo) (1883 - 1936)
Fernando Olmeda Reguera (Fernando of Santiago) (1873 - 1936)
Geronimo Limon Marquez (Luis of Valencia) (1885 - 1936)
Jose Gonzalez Ramos Campos (Angel of Canete La Real) (1879 - 1936)
Andres Soto Carrera (Gil of Puerto de Santa Maria) (1883 - 1936)
Jose Maria Recalde Maguregui (Ignacio of Galdacano) (1912 - 1936)
Alejandro Casare Menendez (Jose of Chauchina) (1897 - 1936)
Juan Silverio Perez Ruano (Crispin of Cuevas de San Marcos) (1875 - 1936)
Rafael Severiano Rodriguez Navarro (Pacifico of Ronda) (1882 - 1936)
Joaquin Frade Eiras (Berardo of Visantona) (1878 - 1936)
Segundo Perez Arias (Ildefonso of Armellada) (1874 - 1936)
Angel de la Red Perez (Arcangel of Valdavida) (1882 - 1936)
Basilio Gonzalez Herrero (Alejo of Terradillos) (1874 - 1936)
Ezequiel Prieto Otero (Eusebio of Saludes) (1885 - 1936)
Juan Francisco Barahona Martin (Alejandro of Sobradillo) (1902 - 1936)
Facundo Escanciano Tejerina (Aurelio of Ocejo) (1881 - 1936)
Lorenzo Ilarregui Goni (Gabriel of Arostegui) (1880 - 1936)
Quirino Diez del Blanco (Gregorio of La Mata) (1889 - 1936)
Emilio Serrano Lizarralde (Saturnino of Bilbao) (1910 - 1936)
Bernardo Cembranos Nistal (Eustaquio of Villaquite) (1903 - 1936)
Felipe Llamas Barrero (Domitilo of Ayoo) (1907 - 1936)
Norberto Cembranos de la Verdura (1891 - 1936)
Andres Francisco Simon Gomez (Eloy of Orihuela) (1876 - 1936)
Jose Perez Gonzalez (Ramiro of Sobradillo) (1907 - 1936)
Ramon Juan Costa (Honorio of Orihuela) (1888 - 1936)
Ignacio Caselles Garcia (Juan Crisostomo of Gata de Gorgos) (1874 - 1936)
Alejo Pan Lopez (Ambrosio of Santibanez) (1888 - 1936)
Aproniano de Felipe Gonzalez (Miguel of Grajal) (1898 - 1936)
Jacinto Gutierrez Terciado (Diego of Guadilla) (1909 - 1936)
Pablo Merillas Fernandez (Carlos of Alcubilla de Nogales) (1902 - 1937)
Lucinio Fontanil Medina (Primitivo of Villamizar) (1884 - 1937)

See also
 Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

References

External links
Martyrs of the Religious Persecution During the Spanish Civil War at Hagiography Circle

1880 births
1936 deaths
Capuchins
20th-century Filipino Roman Catholic priests
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Filipino beatified people
People from Intramuros
Filipino people executed abroad
Spanish people of Filipino descent
University of Santo Tomas alumni

José María of Manila


Outback is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline and comic book series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's survivalist and debuted in 1987.

Profile
His real name is Stuart R. Selkirk, and his rank is that of sergeant E-5. Outback was born in Big Piney, Wyoming.

Outback's primary military specialty is infantry, and his secondary military specialty is survival training instructor. Outback was an instructor at both the Survival School and the Jungle Warfare Training Center. He has had extensive experience in Central America and other undisclosed locations. Outback is not intimidated by wilderness, and believes in being part of his environment rather than its adversary.

His reputation in extreme climates and environments earned him a spot on the G.I. Joe Team, and access to the latest gear and military technology, but Outback prefers to prove his ability to do without it. He views the gadgets and gizmos of today's modern world as distractions, which come at the expense of essential skills like finding food, crafting shelter, and navigating the world without the use of GPS. Outback's ability to improvise solutions with the bare minimum of resources, has saved his life and the lives of his teammates time and again.

SURVIVAL
The word "Survival" printed on his shirt is an acronym, taken from the U.S. Army Ranger Handbook:
 Size up the situation.
 Undue haste makes waste.
 Remember where you are.
 Vanquish fear and panic.
 Improve your situation.
 Value living.
 Act like the natives.
 Learn basic skills.

Toys
Outback was first released as an action figure in 1987.

The figure was repainted and released as part of the Night Force line in 1988, packaged with Crazylegs.

A new version of Outback was released in 1993 as part of the 'Battle Corps' line. A year later the figure was re-released in different colors.

Outback was due to be released as part of the Direct-To-Consumer line but the wave featuring him was cancelled. Outback and the other figures in the wave were later released by the G.I. Joe Collectors Club.

Outback was released in 25th anniversary form as part of the "Assault on Cobra Island" set.

Outback was also released as part of the "Tiger Force" set.

Comics

Marvel Comics
In the Marvel Comics G.I. Joe series, he first appeared in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #59 (May 1987). He has been testing government issued survival equipment and is picked up by a group of Joes returning from weapons testing. The entire group then has to battle an attack by Cobra Commander and Raptor. In issue #61, he is ordered to leave three of his fellow Joes (Stalker, Quick Kick, and Snow Job) behind in order that someone might know they had been captured. Despite the orders, he has trouble dealing with this. His escape from Borovia is detailed in the sixth issue of the 'Special Missions' spin-off series. Outback returns alone to G.I. Joe's Utah headquarters. Leatherneck and Mutt voice how they dislike he has returned alone. The former persists on this topic, leaning into Outback, who pulls a knife on him. The situation is resolved without further violence. Later, the Joes are rescued by another team. They track down Outback and reassure him he did the right thing. His escape had given them enough hope to make it through the ordeal.

Outback is later a part of reserve force of Joes that arrive to add the Joes already on Cobra Island taking part in the Cobra Island Civil War.

Outback is one of the observers when Cobra Commander leads an attack on Castle Destro.

Devil's Due
In the Devil's Due series, Outback is one of the many Joes drawn back into service to battle 'Coil'. It is the army created by Serpentor that has just taken over Cobra Island. Outback says to Leatherneck that he, Outback, has just been called up two days ago. Moments later, he is shot in the lower left of his chest. Leatherneck drives off the Cobra attacker, declaring that he is angry because his 'buddy' was injured. Outback survives his injuries.

Novel
Outback plays a supporting role in the G.I. Joe novel 'Fool's Gold'. It was printed by Ballantine Books.

References

External links
 Outback at JMM's G.I. Joe Comics Home Page

Comics characters introduced in 1987
Fictional characters from Wyoming
Fictional military sergeants
Fictional United States Army personnel
G.I. Joe soldiers
Male characters in comics

Outback (G.I. Joe)


The Auto Freight Transport Building of Oregon and Washington, also known as East Side Terminal and Eastbank Commerce Center,  in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon is a four-story commercial structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1924, it was added to the register in 2005.

Occupying an entire block of the Central Eastside Industrial District, the , U-shaped structure has a flat roof, large industrial windows, and a plain interior with concrete floors and walls.  The original building, an open warehouse with a few offices on the second floor, has since been divided into spaces for light industry, business, and office work.

The original building was part of an industrial complex that developed on the east bank of the Willamette River in the early 20th century. As Portland grew, freight shipments delivered to receiving stations on the river's west side were slowed by heavy traffic on the city's bridges and in the central downtown. Pressure from business owners and civic groups over two decades led to construction of a central eastside receiving station, the Auto Freight Transport Building. The building, served by huge river docks located about  to the west and by rail lines and surface streets, was capable of handling and storing a wide variety of cargo for transhipment to its ultimate destination. In addition, many small freight companies used it for office and lounge space for their employees.

The Auto Freight Transportation Association of Oregon and Washington, a group of small trucking companies, operated the terminal jointly until 1938, when the group changed its name to East Side Terminal, Inc., and moved to another building in the Central Eastside Industrial District. Subsequently, the building became a warehouse used by a variety of freight companies.

The Auto Freight Transport Building had a small built-in service station. However, around 1930 an adjunct building called the Auto Freight Terminal Service Station, across Southeast Water Avenue, was constructed to provide fuel and mechanical repairs to vehicles using the Transport Building. It continued to function as a service station until the early 1940s.

In 1964, relocation of Interstate 5 from the west bank of the Willamette to the east led to removal of the docks and other waterfront structures of the industrial district and demolition of many old industrial buildings. The Auto Freight Transport Building is the best-preserved historic waterfront building in the  district.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Southeast Portland, Oregon

References

External links

Buildings and structures completed in 1924
National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
1924 establishments in Oregon
Buckman, Portland, Oregon
Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Road transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Transportation buildings and structures in Portland, Oregon
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon


Truancy is a dystopian novel written by Isamu Fukui, a New York City student in Stuyvesant High School, when he was 15 years old. Set in a totalitarian city ruled by its Mayor and Educators, it follows the story of a fifteen-year-old student named Tack, and a student rebellion calling itself the Truancy. The story takes a critical look at the institution of school, and is dedicated "to everyone that has ever suffered in the name of education".

Synopsis
The book starts out with 15-year old Tack just trying to survive a ruthless high school where any infraction means expulsion, and expulsion means death. After a run in with some bullies, Tack escapes into abandoned District 19, where he meets Umasi. Umasi pays Tack to do menial chores like sorting through salt and pepper, and trains him in several fighting ways.
On a routine inspection of Tack's school, his little sister Suzie takes the blame for her friend Melissa for throwing a stink bomb at the Disciplinary Officer. Suzie is expelled on the spot and is taken away from the school. Tack immediately follows and leaves the school just in time to see a firebomb fly into the car killing Suzie and the Disciplinary Officer. As he holds his sister's dead body, he sees the person who killed Suzie, calling her "collateral damage". Tack runs away and passes out on a dock. When he wakes up he is found by two members of the Truancy, which is a group of children trying to overthrow the City. He joins the Truancy under the name Takan, thinking that he can find the one who killed Suzie if he does.

He eventually finds Suzie's killer, whose name is Zyid, but he is the leader of the Truancy. Tack sympathizes with the Truancy and feels he cannot kill their leader. He eventually replaces a girl named Noni as Zyid's favorite because of his fighting skills taught by Umasi. During his time with Zyid, he feels wary of his killing and Zyid's brutality to both traitors and enemies. Tack eventually falls in love with Noni. The Mayor hires one of Umasi's former pupils named Edward and appoints him as the Chief Enforcer and leader of the "student Militia", which are students who were promised instant graduation if they fought the Truancy. Zyid confronts Umasi and tells him that he must correct his mistake and kill Edward. Umasi doesn't want to, as he has become a pacifist and has never killed before. Umasi eventually agrees to do it, and finds and kills Edward that night.

The next day, Zyid tells Tack that the war will end that night, and asks Tack to join him to "plead their case to the city" by breaking into a radio tower and setting a tape to loop constantly. After they do this, Zyid reveals that he knows who Tack is and says "killing me won't bring her back". They agree to a duel to the death. Right before the duel, Zyid reveals that his real name is Zen, his brother is Umasi, and both of them are the adoptive twin sons of the Mayor. What follows is a lengthy duel between the two that gets interrupted several times. Tack eventually wins by kicking Zyid off of the top of his old school. Umasi comes and stays with Zyid as he dies. Zyid asks Umasi to promise to help Tack.

The story ends with Tack becoming the leader of the Truancy under the name Takan.

Publication details

Translations
 , 2007.
 , 2007.

References

External links
 The Truancy Official website of the Truancy novel.
 Truancy page, from Tor Books
 "Student Chronicles High School Misery in 'Truancy'", National Public Radio.

2008 American novels
Dystopian novels
2008 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Tor Books books
Novels set in high schools and secondary schools

Truancy (novel)


Timothy is a masculine name. It comes from the Greek name  (Timόtheos) meaning "honouring God", "in God's honour", or "honoured by God". Timothy (and its variations) is a common name in several countries.

People

Given name
 Timothy (given name), including a list of people with the name
 Tim (given name)
 Timmy
 Timo
 Timotheus
 Timothée
 Timoteo

Surname
 Bankole Timothy (1923–1994), Sierra Leonean journalist
 Christopher Timothy (born 1940), Welsh actor
 Miriam Timothy (1879–1950), British harpist
 Nick Timothy (born 1980), British political adviser

Mononym
 Saint Timothy, a companion and co-worker of Paul the Apostle
 Timothy I (Nestorian patriarch)

Education
 Timothy Christian School (Illinois), a school system in Elmhurst, Illinois
 Timothy Christian School (New Jersey), a school in Piscataway, New Jersey

Arts and entertainment
 "Timothy" (song), a 1970 song by The Buoys
 Timothy Goes to School, a Canadian-Chinese children's animated series
 Timothy (TV film), a 2014 Australian television comedy
 Timothy Turtle, a 1946 picture book by Al Graham
 The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim, a 1975 Canadian children's television program

Places
 Timothy, Tennessee, an unincorporated town in Overton County, Tennessee
 Chief Timothy State Park, a former state park in Asotin County, Washington

Other uses
 Timothy-grass, a type of grass
 Timothy (tortoise), a tortoise in the UK
 First Timothy and Second Timothy, Pauline epistles from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

See also

 Murder of Timothy Brenton, an anti-police crime in Seattle perpetrated by Christopher Monfort
 Tim (disambiguation)
 Timoti (disambiguation)
 Timati (born 1983), a Russian recording artist and entrepreneur
 Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian surname derived from the name Timothy
 Acts of Timothy, an Apocryphal work regarding Saint Timothy

Timothy


Jérôme Erceau (born January 14, 1973 in La Roche-sur-Yon) is a French former professional football player and current coach. Between June 2011 and February 2012, he managed FC Martigues in the Championnat National.

He played professionally in Ligue 2 for La Roche VF, USL Dunkerque, Amiens SC, Le Mans Union Club 72, ES Wasquehal, CS Louhans-Cuiseaux and FC Martigues.

In June 2011, Erceau was named as head coach of FC Martigues, where he spent six years of his playing career.

References

1973 births
Living people
French men's footballers
Ligue 2 players
La Roche VF players
Amiens SC players
Le Mans FC players
Louhans-Cuiseaux FC players
FC Martigues players
Men's association football defenders
Wasquehal Football players

Jérôme Erceau


The Zubov family () was the Russian noble family, that rose to occupy some of the highest offices of state in the 1790s, when Platon Zubov became the last favorite of Empress Catherine the Great ().

History
The Zubovs were first noticed in the service of Muscovite dukes in the 15th century. Nikolay Vasilievich Zubov (1699–1786) served in the Collegium of Economics, and his son  (1727–1795) reputedly enriched himself serving as Vice-Governor of Vladimir. Alexander Zubov had one daughter and four sons; in 1793, together with his sons, he received the title of Count. His children were:

  Nikolay Zubov (1763–1805), who became a general when his family was still in power.  Known as a strongman, he served in Suvorov's army and married (1794) Suvorov's only daughter Natalia Alexandrovna (1775–1844).
  (1764–1835), major general in the Imperial Russian Army, considered the founder of the Lithuanian branch of the family. He dedicated himself later to agricultural matters. He was married to princess Praskovją Viazemskaja (Прасковья Александровна Вяземская, 1772–1835), with whom he had four daughters and only one son: Jezilaveta, Varvara, Catherine, Nicholas and Anna.
 Platon Zubov (1767–1822), whom his distant relative, Nicholas Saltykov introduced to the ageing Empress in 1789 and who soon became her lover and the most powerful man in Russia. He was the fourth (and last) Russian to bear the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
 Valerian Zubov (1771–1804), who while serving under Suvorov in Poland, married a Princess Lubomirska and lost his leg in a battle. At the time of Catherine's death in 1796 he was leading the Russian army in Persia.
 Olga Zherebtsova (1766–1849), became involved (along with Nikolay and Platon Zubov) in plotting the assassination of Emperor  Paul I, carried out in 1801; she left Russia soon afterwards.

The lines of Count Nicholas and of his brother Dmitry continue up to the present. Nicholas's great grandson Valentin (1884–1969) was a leading authority on the period of the reign of Emperor Paul I and authored several books on the subject. He was director of the Gatchina Palace museum and founded the Art History Institute in Saint Petersburg before emigrating to Paris in 1925. Dmitry's only son, Nicholas, merged with the local Lithuanian nobility and supported the Lithuanian National Revival characterized by cultural and educational activities. So did his descendants, Vladimir Zubov (born 1862) and his son  (born 1887).

The Zubovs had two family vaults, one at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow built in 1796–1798, and another at the Maritime Monastery of St. Sergius in Strelna near Saint Petersburg, completed in 1809.

References
 Zubov family in the Great Russian Encyclopedia
 Zubov family in the Governorate of Penza

Zubov family

Zubov


Nitromemantine (developmental code name YQW-36) is a derivative of memantine developed in 2006 for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. It has been shown to reduce excitotoxicity mediated by over-activation of the glutamatergic system, by blocking NMDA receptors.

Pharmacology
Like memantine, nitromemantine is a low-affinity voltage-dependent uncompetitive antagonist at glutamatergic NMDA receptors, however nitromemantine selectively inhibits extrasynaptic NMDA receptors while sparing normal physiological synaptic NMDA receptor activity, resulting in less side effects and a greater neuroprotective action, as well as stimulating regrowth of synapses with prolonged administration. The discoverers of nitromemantine have demonstrated that the amyloid-β peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease acts as an agonist at α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, chronic overstimulation of which then results in uncontrolled release of glutamate, and consequent excitotoxicity. By blocking extrasynaptic NMDA receptors, nitromemantine is able to largely prevent this excitotoxicity while minimising the side effects usually seen with less selective NMDA antagonists. The nitrate group of nitromemantine was found to bind to a second site on the extrasynaptic NMDA receptor which had previously been targeted with nitroglycerin, and this double action is thought to be responsible for the increased effectiveness of nitromemantine.

See also
 Memantine
 Neramexane
 Amantadine

References

Adamantanes
Amines
Antidementia agents
NMDA receptor antagonists
Nitrate esters

Nitromemantine


Carol Schlosberg (14 June 1957 – 29 March 1998) was an American painter who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and had been an art instructor at Yale University where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in 1992.  She was a resident of Vermont at the time of her death.

During her brief career, she was known for abstract works that have been described as "textured, abstract, sometimes geometric, sometimes free-form." Her career was cut short when she was murdered during a vacation trip to Mexico in 1998.

Career
Schlosberg initially studied painting at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, where her teachers included painter George Gabin. In 1989 she received a fellowship to study at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. She subsequently pursued a graduate degree at Yale University, where she studied with William Bailey, Gregory Amernoff, Andrew Forge, Natalie Charkow and Richard Lytle. Schlosberg earned an M.F.A. from Yale in 1992. After her study at Yale, she exhibited throughout the region.

Death
On 29 March 1998, Schlosberg was murdered while vacationing in the resort town of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Her murder was among the most highly publicized murders of an American in Mexico of its era.  The New York Times described the murder as part of a "crime epidemic" then sweeping Mexico.  It was the subject of a report on the ABC television news program "20/20" on 27 April 1998.

Two men, one "a Mexican construction worker with a previous conviction for raping a foreign tourist," and the other "a drifter" were convicted of her murder.

After her death, her life and artistic career were recognized by Montserrat College of Art, which named the Carol Schlosberg Gallery in her honor.

References

Sources
 "Mexicans Convicted of Artsist Death," Associated Press (6 October 1999).
 "The Dangers of Traveling in Mexico," Corporate Travel Safety.  (Retrieved 23 May 2012.)

External links
 Carol Schlosberg Memorial Site

1957 births
1998 deaths
American women painters
Yale University alumni
People murdered in Mexico
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
Artists from Newton, Massachusetts
Painters from Massachusetts
Montserrat College of Art alumni

Carol Schlosberg


Itzhak Stern (25 January 1901 – 30 January 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for Sudeten-German industrialist Oskar Schindler and assisted him in his rescue activities during the Holocaust.

Life

Early life
Stern was born 25 January 1901, in Kraków. He was an important leader in the Jewish community, and was the vice president of the Jewish Agency for Western Poland and a member of the Zionist Central Committee. In 1938, he was engaged to Sophia Backenrot, although the marriage was postponed until after the war.

World War II
On 18 November 1939, during the early months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Oskar Schindler was introduced to Stern, who was then working as an accountant for Schindler's fellow Abwehr agent Josef "Sepp" Aue, who had gained control of Stern's formerly Jewish-owned place of employment as a  (trustee). Schindler showed Stern the balance sheet of a company he was thinking of acquiring, an enamelware manufacturer called  Ltd  owned by a consortium of Jewish businessmen (including Abraham Bankier) that had filed for bankruptcy earlier that year. Stern advised him that rather than running the company as a trusteeship under the auspices of the  (Main Trustee Office for the East), he should buy or lease the business directly, as that would give him more freedom from the dictates of the Nazis, including the freedom to hire more Jews. Despite Stern being Jewish and Schindler being a member of the Nazi Party, Schindler was friendly to Stern. Later, Stern said of the meeting:

I did not know what he wanted and I was frightened... [until] December 1st, we Polish Jews had been left more or less alone. They had Aryanized the factories, of course. And if a German asked you a question in the street it was compulsory for you to precede your answer with 'I am a Jew....' But it was only on December 1st that we had to begin wearing the Star of David. It was just as the situation had begun to grow worse for the Jews, when the Sword of Damocles was already over our heads, that I had this meeting with Oskar Schindler.

In a later meeting, Stern informed Schindler that he could use Jewish slave labour to staff his factory,  (German Enamelware Factory) at a lower price than Polish laborers, which would also allow those laborers to be protected from deportations. Schindler followed his suggestion, which began his rescue activities of Jews during the Holocaust.

Kraków's Jews were imprisoned in the Kraków Ghetto six months after German troops invaded Kraków. The ghetto was fully liquidated in 1943. Those considered useful (to be used as slave labour) were sent to Płaszów, including Schindler's workers and Stern. The rest were sent to various death camps across Poland. In Płaszów, Stern and his brother Natan, along with Mietek Pemper and Joseph Bau, were forced to work in Płaszów's office, where they came into frequent contact with the camp's notorious commandant, Amon Göth. Stern helped Pemper in his efforts to prevent the closure and liquidation of Płaszów, knowing that while conditions there were terrible, liquidation likely meant the deaths of every prisoner. Stern kept in contact with Schindler throughout this time and worked to better conditions for the Jews, including transferring workers to Schindler's factory, distributing aid money, and attempting to inform the outside world of their plight.

In 1944, when the closure of Płaszów became inevitable, Schindler decided to open a new factory, the Brünnlitz labor camp, in Brněnec, occupied Czechoslovakia, for his Jewish workers in order to prevent them from being sent to death camps. Stern and the surviving members of his family were placed on the famous list to be transferred to Brünnlitz by Schindler, although Stern's mother died of illness when she, along with the other female , was transferred to Auschwitz before Schindler could arrange their transfer to Brünnlitz. The male , including Stern and Natan, were transported to Gross-Rosen before they were sent to the relative safety of Brünnlitz, where Stern worked directly with Schindler and became one of the leaders of the Jewish workers. Due to his membership in the Nazi Party and service in the Abwehr, Schindler was in danger of being arrested after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Stern and the other Jewish leaders wrote a letter attesting to Schindler's rescue of Jews, which they gave to Schindler before he fled to the Allied lines.

Later life
After the liberation of the Brünnlitz camp by the Red Army, Stern moved to Paris and eventually emigrated to Israel. He advocated for Schindler to be recognized more broadly, even writing a pamphlet about his rescue activity. Stern remained friends with Schindler for the rest of his life, corresponding with him until his death in 1969. It was reported that Schindler "cried inconsolably" at his funeral.

Personal life
In 1938, Stern was engaged to Sophia Backenrot, who survived the war due to her Aryan appearance in the Drohobycz ghetto. Their marriage was postponed until the end of the war in 1945. They remained married until Stern's death at the age of 68.

Legacy
He was portrayed in the 1993 film Schindler's List by English actor Ben Kingsley. At the end of the film, Stern's widow Sophia appears in a procession of  and the actors who portrayed them, placing stones on Schindler's grave on Mount Zion, which is a Jewish tradition showing respect for the deceased. Stern's brother Natan was also one of the  in the procession.

References

1901 births
1969 deaths
Polish Jews in Israel
20th-century Israeli Jews
20th-century Polish Jews
Citizens of Israel through Law of Return
Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors
Holocaust survivors
Kraków Ghetto inmates
Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors
Polish accountants
Polish expatriates in France
Polish emigrants to Israel
Schindlerjuden
People from Kraków

Itzhak Stern


Photo Booth is an application developed by Apple Inc. for the macOS and iPadOS operating systems that allows users to take photos and videos using the device's built-in camera.

Photo Booth was released in October 2005 and was originally available only on Macintosh computers that had a built-in iSight camera running Mac OS X Tiger.

Photo Booth displays a preview showing the camera's view in real time. Thumbnails of saved photos and videos are displayed along the bottom of this window, obscuring the bottom of the video preview. These can be shown or played by clicking on the thumbnails.

By default, Photo Booth's live preview and captured images are reversed horizontally, to simulate the user looking into a mirror; an option provides unreversed images.

History
Photo Booth was first introduced by Apple in 2005 with the release of iMac G5, which featured a built-in iSight camera. The app was later introduced on iPad devices with the release of iPad 2 in March 2011.

Since its initial release, Photo Booth has received several updates and new features. Notable updates include:

 Additional Effects: Apple has added new filters and effects to the app, such as  Space Alien, Blockhead, Dizzy, and Lovestruck, among others.
 Sharing Features: In 2012, Apple added new sharing features to Photo Booth, allowing users to share photos and videos to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr.

Post-processing
After the picture is taken effects can be applied by clicking on the "Effects" button. Photo Booth has two sets of image effects that can be applied when taking a picture. The first set contains photographic filters similar to those in Adobe Photoshop; additional effects may be downloaded from websites. Another set allows replacing the background with a custom backdrop.

Backgrounds

From Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to macOS 10.15 Catalina, the user could apply backdrops to provide an effect similar to a green screen. When a backdrop was selected, a message appeared telling the user to step away from the camera. Once the background was analyzed, the user stepped back in front of the camera and was shown in front of the chosen backdrop.

See also
 Comparison of webcam software

References

External links

 Photo Booth User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

MacOS-only proprietary software
Camera software
IPadOS software
IOS-based software made by Apple Inc.

Photo Booth


Arctic River (Inupiaq: Aguġvik) is a waterway in the U.S. state of Alaska. Situated on the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, it rises south of Ear Mountain. It is about  long, and flows into the west side of Shishmaref Inlet. Southeast of Ear Mountain, the course of this river is in a broad basin containing a number of small lakes. Below this basin, the river has cut a well-defined canyon. Viewed from the surrounding hills, the basin appears to be an old lake bed. A broad, flat divide, which has what appears to be an abandoned river channel across it, separates this basin from the drainage of the Kugruk River of the Arctic region. Many of the tributaries of Arctic River were staked by gold miners.

References

Rivers of the Seward Peninsula
Rivers of Alaska
Rivers of Nome Census Area, Alaska
Rivers of Unorganized Borough, Alaska

Arctic River


Rantoul is a town in Calumet County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 798 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated community of Wells is located partially in the town.

Geography
The Town of Rantoul is located in northeastern Calumet County. It is bordered by Manitowoc County to the east. The village of Potter is in the center of the town but is a separate municipality, and the village of Hilbert touches the town's northwestern border. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 1.40%, is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 841 people, 261 households, and 222 families residing in the town. The population density was 25.9 people per square mile (10.0/km2).  There were 267 housing units at an average density of 8.2 per square mile (3.2/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 96.79% White, 0.83% Native American, 0.83% Asian, and 1.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.12% of the population.

There were 261 households, out of which 45.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.3% were married couples living together, 6.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.9% were non-families. 10.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.22 and the average family size was 3.49.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 33.8% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $48,000, and the median income for a family was $50,893. Males had a median income of $35,917 versus $23,214 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,316. About 2.9% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.0% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Notable people

 Herman Hedrich, politician
 Gervase Hephner, politician
 Carl Hillmann, politician
 Henry Kleist, politician

References

External links
 Town of Rantoul official website

Towns in Calumet County, Wisconsin
Towns in Wisconsin

Rantoul, Wisconsin


John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS (12 July 16831 May 1748), known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo-Irish politician.

Early life and heritage

Perceval was born at Burton, County Cork, the second son of Sir John Perceval, 3rd Baronet, and Catherine, daughter of Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet. His great-grandfather was Sir Philip Perceval (1605–1647), who had obtained estates in Ireland and England from his father, Sir Richard Perceval (1550–1620), through the death of his elder brother, Walter. Richard Perceval in 1616 had sold a great part (£1,200 a year, according to Lodge) of his ancient patrimony, and invested the sum realised in purchases and mortgages in County Cork, thus laying the foundation of the prosperity and property of his family there.

Sir Philip had three children by Catherine Ussher: Judith, John and George. John would later become the first Baronet and grandfather to Egmont; George would father the Very Reverend William Perceval, grandfather to, amongst others, the Irish landlord Robert Perceval-Maxwell (1813–1905), William Perceval and Spencer Perceval, who together would purchase, administer and settle Amherst Island in Upper Canada.

John Perceval's father died when he was two, and in 1691, he succeeded his elder brother as fifth Baronet. The following year his mother also died. Perceval was educated at Westminster School, London, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. However, he left university without taking a degree.

Career
In 1703, he was elected to the Irish House of Commons for County Cork, and in 1704 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council. Perceval was again elected for County Cork in 1713. He sat until 1715, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Perceval, of Burton in the County of Cork, with remainder to the heirs male of his father. In 1722, he was created Viscount Perceval, of Kanturk in the County of Cork, in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to his heirs male. Lord Perceval was elected to the British House of Commons for Harwich in 1727, which constituency he continued to represent until 1734, and was also a Recorder of Harwich from 1728 to 1734. In 1733, he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Egmont in the Peerage of Ireland. However, he rejected the offer of a British peerage three times. Apart from his political career, he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1728 he became a member of the committee of Parliament investigating prison conditions. He soon became a close associate of James Oglethorpe, who chaired the committee. In 1730, the two men were among those who formed an association that later became the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America. George II approved a charter for the colony in 1732, making Egmont president of the Georgia Trustees. He and Oglethorpe, working with several other close associates, devised an elaborate plan for the settlement of the colony now famously known as the Oglethorpe Plan. He actively superintended the colonisation of Georgia, withholding 'neither money, time, nor influence in his ceaseless efforts to advance what he conceived to be the best interests of the province,' and keeping with his own hand 'A Journal of the Transactions of the Trustees,' &c., the second and third volumes of which have been printed.

Diary
His diary (published by the Historical Manuscripts Commission) is an important source on Parliamentary History in the 1730s and early 1740s.

Family
Lord Egmont married Catherine, daughter of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet, in 1710. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Only three of the children reached adulthood.
 John (1711–1770), who succeeded him as the second Earl of Egmont
 Catherine (died 16 February 1748), who was married, on 14 April 1733, to Thomas Hanmer of Fenns, Flintshire (died 1 April 1737)
 Anne, born 12 May 1713, who died an infant
 Philip Clarke, born 21 June 1714, who also died an infant
 Mary, born 28 December 1716, who also died an infant
 Helena (14 February 171812 June 1746, who was married, on 10 November 1741, to Sir John Rawdon, bart. (afterwards first Earl of Moira).
 George (28 January 1722July 1726)

Lady Egmont died on 22 August 1749. Engravings of Egmont and his wife by Faber, after Hysing and Gouge respectively, can be found in vol. ii. of the "Genealogical History of the House of Yvery," opposite pp. 403 and 444. A whole-length portrait of Egmont by Godfrey Kneller was engraved by John Smith.

Lord Egmont died in London in May 1748, aged 64, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest and only surviving son John. The latter's seventh son was Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.

See also
 Earl of Egmont

Notes

Sources

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

External links
 Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
 Sir John Percival papers, also called: The Egmont Papers, 1732-1745.
 Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont. Diary of Viscount Percival afterwards first Earl of Egmont ...
 Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Sir John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, 1683-1748

1683 births
1748 deaths
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
British MPs 1727–1734
Peers of Ireland created by George I
Fellows of the Royal Society
Perceval, John
Perceval, John
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
Earls of Egmont

John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont


The Hôtel des Trois Collèges is located at Rue Cujas in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter. Formerly called Hôtel de Flandre (until 1984), it is situated opposite the Sorbonne University.

History

The hotel is at the exact location of the Cluny College (established in 1261 by the Order of Cluny), closed during the French Revolution and used as a studio by Jacques-Louis David where he painted The Coronation of Napoleon (1805–07). The Cluny College's well is still visible inside the hotel.

Arthur Rimbaud describes the hotel's courtyard in a letter to Ernest Delahaye (June 1872): "I have a pretty room, overlooking a bottomless courtyard, but three square meters wide. Rue Victor-Cousin is on the corner of the Sorbonne's square near the café du Bas-Rhin and leads to Rue Soufflot on the other end".

The French poet Raoul Ponchon spent the end of his life in the hotel.

Miklós Radnóti lived in this hotel during the summers of 1937 and 1939. The Hungarian poet recalls this period in his poem "Paris" (1943):  "Where the Boul' Mich' meets the Rue / Cujas the corner slopes perceptibly". A commemorative plaque by the hotel entrance celebrates the memory of Radnóti with a quotation from "Hispania, Hispania": "The Nations sing your destiny, O Freedom / This afternoon that great song flew for sure".

The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez wrote his novels No One Writes to the Colonel and In Evil Hour in the hotel between 1956 and 1957. By the hotel entrance, a commemorative plaque by Colombian sculptor Milthon  pays homage to him.

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa stayed at the hotel a few years later.

Sources
Dictionnaire historique des rue de Paris, Jacques Hillairet, Minuit (1985)
Gabriel García Márquez : A Life, Gerald Martin, Grasset (2009)
In the footsteps of Orpheus : The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti, Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Indiana University Press (2000)
Rimbaud : Oeuvres complètes, Gallimard Pléiade (2009)

References

Raoul Ponchon, Spirilège, Capaxios Editions (2008)
Official Website

Hotels in Paris
Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris

Hotel des Trois Collèges


Calo Scott (March 11, 1920 - August 9, 1998) was a Cuban-American jazz cellist. Scott is noted for being one of earliest known jazz cellists. He established himself in the 1950s through working with the saxophonist Gerry Mulligan when "having a cello player as an improvising member of a jazz group was then virtually unheard of." In addition to Gerry Mulligan, Calo Scott worked with Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Gato Barbieri, Marc Levin, and John Handy among others. He was also active in New York City's Lower East Side intermedia-arts scene, working with artists such as dancer-choreographer Mary McKay, artist Aldo Tambellini, and filmmaker Cassandra Einstein (then known as Cassandra Gerstein).

Early life and career
Calo Scott was born in Camaguey, Cuba, and moved to the USA when he was two years old. He began studies on piano, chose to focus his studies on the saxophone in his teens, and started working as a professional musician with a US Army band in the 1949. In the early 1950s he was diagnosed with a rheumatic heart condition and subsequently switched to cello. His peers and critics later commented that his early work with the saxophone heavily informed his signature phrasings on the cello. He studied at the Third Street Settlement House (a community school founded in 1894 in the Lower East Side, which offered classes in contemporary music and dance). He began working as a freelance musician in New York City in the mid 1950s, where he frequently performed at Five Spot, Dom, and Village Gate, as well as at Carnegie Hall. Between 1957-1974 he had participated in 23 recording sessions. His most acclaimed recordings include his solos in the track "Don't Blame Me" on The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and his contributions to  Gato Barbieri Quartet's In Search of the Mystery. Calo Scott was widely known for his unique habit of playing the cello while standing, which one can see in performance photos (such as those taken during Aldo Tambellini's "Black Zero"); portraits of the artist suggest that he supported the cello's weight with the assistance of wearing a saxophone-neck strap.

Steve Lacy described Calo Scott in an interview as "A very good cellist. He was a great cellist and he used to pluck the cello [pizzicato] like a bass. He sounded like Jimmy Blanton really. It was amazing. He died young. This was the first guy I ever heard playing the cello like that. It was for dancing."

Lorenzo Thomas on Calo Scott "The day John Handy III came to town, he was featured on television. But if you were down you had a chance to meet him at the Dom on St. Marks Place, the truly happening place those days on New York's Lower East Side. Everyone was excited by the advance word; and, when it hit, the new LP from Columbia Records delivered a knockout punch. It was Sunday afternoon and in the Dom's cool, dark basement lounge Handy and cellist Calo Scott sat up on the bar and played some thoughtful, beautiful music. Intricate and soulful. These were artists with total mastery of their instruments… They stopped just in time for everybody in the place, a couple dozen folk, to help John watch himself on TV. It was a family affair."

Norris Jones AKA Sirone on Calo Scott, during ESP recording: "Calo was an incredible cellist. I did not know this until later but I heard that he had played saxophone and had some health problems—I don't know how true it is—and this is why he switched over to cello. But the concept of the way he would go with cello, it was like he was playing a horn. His phrasing was completely taken in a different direction from the cello. […] For two string players, we were very much accompanying one another. We were never in each other's way. And when we made the individual contribution, the contribution was made towards the whole."

Calo Scott frequently collaborated with his partner, the dancer-choreographer Mary McKay. Additionally, he collaborated with the performance artist Aldo Tambellini: in two performances of Aldo Tambellini's performance "Moondial" in 1966 (at The Bridge Theater and at the University of Ontario, and in May 1967 (at the McCarter Theater). Calo Scott also performed independently with Aldo Tambellini to create sound for "Black Zero" in 1968. Calo Scott also collaborated with the filmmaker Cassandra Gerstein: he provided the soundtrack for her film Kali and was featured in the portrait film Undine.

Later life
Around 1973 after suffering a stroke, Calo Scott retired from performing and recording, and moved with his partner Mary McKay to Middlesex, VT, where they both lived out the rest of their lives.

Discography
 1957 Vinnie Burke's String Jazz Quartet (ABC-Paramount) – with Bobby Grillo, Dick Wetmore, Vinnie Burke
 1958 The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (World Pacific)
 1958 Mal/3: Sounds (Prestige)
 1961 Ahmed Abdul-Malik - The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz)
 1962 Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Sounds of Africa (New Jazz)
 1967 Gato Barbieri Quartet - In Search of the Mystery (ESP Disk) — with Norris Jones, Bobby Kapp, Gato Barbieri
 1968 Marc Levin - The Dragon Suite (Savoy Records) — with Cecil McBee, Frank Clayton, Marc Levin, and Jonas Gwangwa
 1971 Archie Shepp – Things Have Got to Change (Impulse!)
 1971 Carla Bley, Paul Haines – Escalator over the Hill (JCOA)
 1972 Various – Irrepressible Impulses (Impulse!) - with Archie Shepp among others
 1972 Archie Shepp – Attica Blues (Impulse!)
 1973 Marc Levin Ensemble – Songs Dances And Prayers (Sweet Dragon) – with Frank Clayton, Tom Moore, Marc Levin, Billy Hart, Brian Ross, Bala Krishna, Jay Clayton
 1974 Charles Rouse – Two Is One (Strata-East)
 1994 Various - Soul Jazz Love Strata-East (Soul Jazz Records) - with Charles Rouse
 2006 Archie Shepp - The Impulse Story (Impulse!)
 2009 John Handy – Mosaic Select (Mosaic Records)
 2013 Mal Waldron – Seven Classic Albums  (Real Gone Jazz) – remaster of Mal/3: Sounds
 2015 Archie Shepp – Things Have Got To Change / The Cry Of My People (Impulse!) – remaster of 1971 release

References

Jazz cellists
1920 births
1998 deaths
Cuban emigrants to the United States
20th-century cellists

Calo Scott


This is a list of media in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Television

 Channel 4.1 (cable 3): CBAT-DT, CBC (licensed to Saint John, with studios in Fredericton)
 Channel 9.1 (cable 8): CKLT-DT, CTV (Saint John)
 Channel 11.1 (cable 6): CHNB-DT, Global (Saint John; semi-satellite of CIHF-DT Halifax)

Radio
 1260 AM - CKHJ, "Pure Country" country music
 90.5 FM - CJPN-FM, French language community
 92.3 FM - CFRK-FM, "New Country 92.3" country
 93.1 FM - CIHI-FM, "Rewind 93.1" classic hits
 93.3 FM - CIRC-FM, automated local information (defunct)
 94.7 FM - CJRI-FM, gospel music
 95.7 FM - CKTP-FM, mixed format, owned by the St. Mary's First Nation
 96.5 FM - CIXN-FM, "Joy FM"  Contemporary Christian music
 97.9 FM - CHSR-FM, University of New Brunswick & St. Thomas University campus/community radio
 99.5 FM - CBZF-FM, CBC Radio One
 105.3 FM - CFXY-FM, "Bounce 105.3" adult hits
 106.9 FM - CIBX-FM, "Move 106.9" adult contemporary

CBC Music (CBZ-FM 101.5) and both Radio-Canada services (Ici Radio-Canada Première CBAF-FM-1 102.3 and Ici Musique CBAL-FM-4 88.1) are provided from transmitters in Saint John. Other stations from Saint John and Presque Isle, Maine can also be heard in Fredericton.

Print

The Daily Gleaner is published in Fredericton as a city daily and there are also three weekly newspapers available. The Telegraph-Journal, based in Saint John, publishes a provincial edition and has a bureau in Fredericton. Moncton's Times & Transcript operates a news bureau from the Legislative Press Gallery. Furthermore, the students at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University both publish their own weekly papers - The Brunswickan and The Aquinian respectively - which are distributed in public areas on campus and in the city in general.  In recent years, Fredericton has seen a growth in alternative and independent media newspapers.

Online
 https://nouzie.com/ - Nouzie helps individuals, organizations & non-profits with accessing local news, events and community information without the need to search the internet.

Fredericton

Media, Fredericton

Media in Fredericton


José Asunción Flores (27 August 1904 – 16 May 1972) was a Paraguayan composer and creator of the Guarania music genre.

Early life
Flores was born in the poor neighborhood of La Chacarita, in Asunción. As a kid, he had to work as a paperboy and shoeshiner  in order to help his mother with food and other necessities. At the early age of 11 he had already joined the Capital Police marching band and was a student of composer Félix Fernández and director Salvador Déntice. In 1922 he made his first composition, a polka song named "Manuel Gondra".

The birth of the Guarania
In 1925, after experimenting with different arrangements of the old Paraguayan song Maerãpa Reikuaase he managed to create a new genre, which he called Guarania. His first Guarania song was Jejui. The purpose of this new genre was to express the feelings of the Paraguayan people through music. Later Flores would comment on his creation as:

In 1928 he met the Guairá-native poet Manuel Ortiz Guerrero, and soon after the two started working together to create the most beautiful Guaranias songs to date such as India, Cerro Corá and Panambí Verá.

In 1932 he enrolled in the army to fight for Paraguay in the Chaco War. After the war, political instability ruled in Paraguay and Flores moved to Buenos Aires. While he was living in Argentina his songs were diffused throughout Paraguay and the Guarania genre became a success, confirming the originality and creativity of Flores' work. In 1944 the song India was declared by the Paraguayan government as a "national song". While living in Buenos Aires, Flores also worked on classical music and wrote twelve symphonies in his lifetime.

Exile, death and legacy
Because of his work and contributions to Paraguayan music and culture, Flores was awarded the National Order of Merit in 1949. However, he decided not to accept the award to protest the killing of a student that occurred in a protest against the government. Because of that, he was considered "a traitor" by the government and when Alfredo Stroessner became the president of Paraguay in 1954 Flores was forbidden to return to Paraguay. His wish to return to his home country was even denied in the latter years of his life when he was ill and wanted to see his homeland and people one more time before his death. Even though the government banned his songs, they were still being played by radio stations and the people, who had already identified with the Guaranias. Flores died in 1972, in Buenos Aires.

In 1991, after Stroessner was ousted, Flores' remains were brought back to Paraguay, and they rest in a plaza that has his name.

List of works
José Asunción Flores' songs include:
 "India"
"Nde Rendape ajú"
 "Panambí Verá"
 "Paraguaýpe"
 "Buenos Aires, Salud"
 "Kerasy"
 "Nde Raty Py Kuá"
 "Obrerito"
 "Gallito Cantor"
 "Purahéi Paha"
 "Mburicao"
 "Ñasaindype"
 "Ñande Aramboha"
 "Cholí"
 "Musiqueada Che Amape"
 "Ka´aty"
 "Arribeño Resay"

His symphonies include:
Pyhare pyte
Ñande Ru Vusu
María de la Paz

References

1904 births
1972 deaths
Musicians from Asunción
Paraguayan composers
Male composers
Paraguayan classical musicians
People of the Chaco War
Paraguayan expatriates in Argentina
Paraguayan exiles
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century composers
20th-century male musicians

José Asunción Flores


Jay Neagle (born 17 January 1988) is an Australian rules footballer formerly with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

The son of former Bomber Merv Neagle, Jay was drafted under the father–son rule at the end of the 2005 AFL season.

In his first season, Neagle suffered a number of injury setbacks, primarily with his ankles.

Neagle played his first game of the 2007 season in Round 22, which was also Kevin Sheedy's last game as coach of Essendon and James Hird's last game as a player. Despite lacking in fitness, Neagle was very impressive with his leading and marking and kicked his first senior AFL goal.

2008 saw Neagle develop rapidly. Despite missing large amounts of the pre-season and still having problems with his ankles, he appeared seven times in the Essendon senior side and kicked 10 goals, including three against West Coast and two against both Carlton and Port Adelaide. His accurate goal kicking and strength in marking contests became a feature of his playing style.

On 8 October 2011, Neagle was officially delisted by Essendon.

References

External links
Jay Neagle profile on Essendon Football Club official website

1988 births
Living people
Essendon Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Gippsland Power players
Bendigo Football Club players

Jay Neagle