Richmond McDavid Flowers Jr. (born June 13, 1947) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Tennessee and was drafted in the second round of the 1969 NFL Draft. He was also a track All-American in college.

Flowers participated in track and field primarily as a hurdler, specializing in the 110-meter high hurdles.  After capturing the NCAA championship in the event in 1968, he was a leading contender to win the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics before suffering a hamstring injury just prior to the Olympic trials.  He set several records during his career.

He was the son of Richmond Flowers Sr., an anti-segregationist who served a tumultuous term as Alabama's attorney general in the 1960s.

Early years
Flowers was raised in Dothan, a city located in Houston County in southeastern Alabama. During his early childhood, he appeared to be anything but a future athlete.  He suffered from asthma, anemia, and dyslexia, and frequently missed school due to illness.  He was also flat-footed, and had to wear heavy orthopedic Brogans.  By the time he was in junior high, however, his asthma had cleared up, and his feet began to arch.  In the Fall of 1962, Flowers' family moved to Montgomery, where he attended Sidney Lanier High School.

His father was Richmond Flowers Sr., the Attorney General of Alabama from 1963 to 1967 and a former member of the Alabama State Senate. The senior Flowers was an intraparty rival of segregationist Governors George Wallace and Lurleen Burns Wallace. He  drew national attention in the early 1960s when he criticized Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident, which was an attempt to bar African Americans from enrolling in the University of Alabama. He also favored the integration of public schools and prosecuted Ku Klux Klansmen in the killings of civil rights workers. His work against the era's conventions made him and his family a target of scorn, hate and death threats.  The family received threatening phone calls at all hours of the night, their house was frequently vandalized, and a cross was burned on their lawn.

Amid the chaos surrounding his father, the younger Flowers exploded onto the track and field scene. In the Spring of 1963, he set state high school records in the 120-yard high hurdles, the 180-yard high hurdles, and the long jump.  In 1964, he broke five state records at the state high school championships.
As a senior in 1965, he set regional records in the 120-yard high hurdles, the 180-yard low hurdles and the long jump. He tied the state record in the 100-yard dash and anchored the winning 4 × 100 metres relay team. At the Gulf Coast Relays in Mobile, he set a national high school record with 13.5 seconds in the 120-yard high hurdles. At an open meet in Modesto, California, in May 1965, he beat 1964 Olympic silver medalist Blaine Lindgren in the 42-inch hurdles.

Flowers received scholarship offers from more than 100 colleges, and was heavily recruited by Alabama head coach Bear Bryant.  He was intrigued, however, by the University of Tennessee, where Coach Chuck Rohe was gradually building the track program into a national powerhouse.  He made up his mind to attend Tennessee in 1965 following the Gulf Coast Relays, during which his father had been introduced and booed.

College career
At Tennessee, Flowers was a three-time NCAA All-American in track.  At the All-Eastern Games in Baltimore in February 1966, Flowers registered a time of 6.9 seconds in the 60-yard high hurdles, just one-tenth of a second off the world record.  At the National AAU meet in the Spring of that year, he finished second to future Olympian Willie Davenport in the hurdles, and second to Billy Gaines in the 60-yard dash.  He was the cover photo on the March 14, 1966 issue of Sports Illustrated. At the SEC Championships in May 1967, he won the 120-yard high hurdles and the 100-yard dash, and was named Most Outstanding Performer. At the NCAA Championships the following month, he set the NCAA record in the 120-yard high hurdles.    He was the 1968 NCAA Indoor Champion for 60 yard hurdles.

Along with track, Flowers joined Tennessee's football team, which Coach Doug Dickey had been rebuilding into a national contender.  Starting at wingback during his sophomore year in 1966 (freshmen were ineligible to play varsity before the 1970s), Flowers caught 35 passes for 405 yards, and was named to the sophomore All-SEC team.  He registered five catches for 80 yards and a touchdown in Tennessee's 18-12 win over the Larry Csonka-led Syracuse Orange in the 1966 Gator Bowl. During his junior season in 1967, he caught 41 passes for 585 yards and four touchdowns, and was named an All-American by The Football News.

By his junior year in 1968, Flowers was considered a leading contender for the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 110 metres hurdles.  Davenport had dominated the previous three seasons, but in 1968, Flowers beat him handily at several early season meets, to the point that the future gold medalist quit his college team that he thought was hurting his chances. Flowers ran the high hurdles in 13.3 seconds, a tenth of a second off the world mark, and went on to win eight consecutive hurdles races, which included wins over Davenport, Ervin Hall, and world-record holder Earl McCullouch.  While training at UT on June 2, however, he tore his right hamstring. He showed up at the September high altitude Olympic Trials in Echo Summit just barely recovered, but struggled to a non-qualifying 5th place.

His Olympic ambitions in shambles, Flowers rejoined Tennessee's football team in time for the 1968 season.  Lining up primarily at halfback, he carried 20 times for 101 yards in Tennessee's 24-7 win over Georgia Tech, scored two touchdowns in Tennessee's 42-18 win over UCLA, and most notably scored Tennessee's lone touchdown in the Vols' 10-9 victory over Alabama.  He finished his football career at UT with a then-school record 101 catches for 1,172 yards and nine touchdowns, 140 rushes for 481 yards and seven touchdowns, and 19 kick returns for 411 yards.

Professional career

Dallas Cowboys
Flowers was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round (49th overall) of the 1969 NFL Draft. He was chosen as an athlete, so he spent his first weeks in training camp on both offense and defense, before focusing on safety. In his first year, he was mostly used on kickoff returns (21.6 yards average), before being placed on the taxi squad to make room on the roster for an injured Bob Hayes.

In 1970, he was beat out for the free safety position by the undrafted rookie Cliff Harris. After Harris was forced to leave the team because of military service obligations, he received the opportunity to start two games, but was eventually replaced in the starting lineup by Charlie Waters. His most important play as a Cowboy came against the Cleveland Browns, when the Browns had to punt while backed up against their end zone, he replaced an injured D. D. Lewis and blocked the punt that led to a game-winning field goal, for a final score of 6-2. In 1971, he returned to a reserve role and was waived on October 25, one day after the Cowboys defeated the New England Patriots in the first game at Texas Stadium.

New York Giants
On October 25, 1971, the Washington Redskins claimed him off the waiver wire, but ended up sending him to the New York Giants on October 27, to complete the trade for Clifton McNeil. As part of the transaction, the Giants originally received a fifth (#121-Larry Edwards), sixth, and seventh round (#177-Mike Zikas) draft choices, before accepting Flowers and returning the sixth choice back.

In 1972, he was named the starter at strong safety and had his best season in the NFL, recording 4 interceptions. In 1973, he was injured in the second game of the season and missed six games before being activated on November 10.

While playing for the Giants he also was a part of the International Track Association, where he was contacted by the founders of the World Football League.

Houston Texans/Shreveport Steamer (WFL)
In 1974, Flowers signed with the Hawaiians of the World Football League, becoming the first NFL player to sign with the new league. His rights were later sent to the Houston Texans, where he worked in the team's front office, while his Giants contract ran out and he could return to play. On September 23, the team relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana and changed their name to the Shreveport Steamer.

Personal life
Described by the 1967 Tennessee football media guide as the "aspiring J.P. Morgan of the squad" for his habit of analyzing stocks while the team was en route to away games, Flowers collected a business degree from Tennessee.  After his professional football career, he obtained a Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law, and briefly practiced law in Nashville. In the early 1980s, he became Vice President of REFCO, a Chicago-based commodities trading firm.  In 1983, Flowers lost millions of dollars on a bad investment, and was censured and fined by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.  He relocated to Coral Gables, Florida, where he began to rebuild his life.  Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Flowers moved to Birmingham.  He has worked as a salesman for NuSkin International since 1989.

Flowers was named a "Living Legend" for SEC football in 1998, and was listed among the twenty-five greatest SEC athletes by The Birmingham News. He was named to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.  Flowers and his father were the subjects of the 1989 CBS television film, Unconquered, starring Dermot Mulroney as Flowers and Peter Coyote as his father.

Flowers' son, Richmond Flowers III, was a state champion hurdler in high school and was a member of the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins practice squads in the early 2000s. He is currently an offensive assistant in the NFL.

References

External links
Flowers: 'Fastest white boy alive'
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame bio
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame bio

1947 births
Living people
American male hurdlers
Sidney Lanier High School alumni
Alabama lawyers
Players of American football from Dothan, Alabama
Players of American football from Montgomery, Alabama
American football safeties
Tennessee Volunteers football players
Tennessee Volunteers men's track and field athletes
Dallas Cowboys players
New York Giants players
Shreveport Steamer players
University of Alabama School of Law alumni

Richmond Flowers Jr.


AEF0117 (3β-(4-methoxybenzyloxy)pregn-5-en-20-one)  is a compound derived from pregnenolone by Aelis Farma, which acts as a biased allosteric modulator of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor, representing a new class of compounds referred to as CB1-selective signalling-specific inhibitors (CB1-SSi). It binds to an allosteric site on the CB1 receptor and modifies the downstream signalling produced as a result of CB1 activation, preventing CB1 mediated changes to mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphorylation but without affecting the signalling mediated by cyclic AMP. Unlike pregnenolone, AEF0117 is specific for the CB1-SSi activity and lacks the neurosteroid action typical of many structurally related compounds.

In Phase II human clinical trials in patients diagnosed with cannabis use disorder, AEF0117 was found to partly but not completely block the effects of THC, and reduced cannabis self-administration but without producing an acute withdrawal syndrome and with relatively mild side effects. It is hoped that compounds of this type may be useful either as medications for the treatment of cannabinoid dependence, or could be used alongside medicinal cannabis to reduce unwanted side effects while retaining therapeutic efficacy.

See also
 GAT100
 Org 27569
 PSNCBAM-1
 Rimonabant

References

Cannabinoids
Steroids
Ketones
Methoxy compounds

AEF0117


Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt (May 9, 1882 – June 19, 1933) was a Ashkenazi chazzan and composer. He was regarded as the greatest cantor of his time.

Biography
Rosenblatt was born on May 9, 1882, in Bila Tserkva, Russian Empire. The scion of a long line of cantors, Rosenblatt's devoutly religious upbringing prevented him from receiving formal musical training at any of the great academies of his day. He began his career as a member of the local synagogue choir. Quickly lauded as a "wunderkind", or child prodigy, Rosenblatt's solo career was launched. At the age of 7, he moved with his family to Sadigora, Bukovina (Austria).

When he was 17 years old, Rosenblatt went to Vienna for several months, during which he officiated in the largest synagogues of the city. He informally studied with Jacob Maerz, an accomplished singer and musician as well as a wealthy merchant. Rosenblatt's stay in Vienna was followed by an extensive tour of the communities of the Austro-Hungarian empire including Budapest.

At 18 he married Taube Kaufman and accepted his first full-time position at the Chasidic community of Munkacs, Hungary. Shortly afterwards, in 1901, he relocated to Pressburg (Bratislava). Five years later he occupied a position in Hamburg, Germany. In 1912, he moved to Harlem to take a position at the Ohab Zedek orthodox congregation. In August 1927, he left his position at the Ohab Zedek congregation. During the following High Holy Days, he led the services in a hall in Chicago and, on Sukkot, in Detroit. During the succeeding months, he traveled throughout the United States, leading services in cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle, Indianapolis, Columbus, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. In Washington, D.C., he met with then-President Calvin Coolidge. In 1928, he signed a 10-year contract with First Congregation Anshe Sfard, located in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Rosenblatt's fame extended beyond the Jewish world earning him large concert fees, a singing role in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, and the sobriquet "The Jewish Caruso".

Bankruptcy
In the early 1920s, Rosenblatt was approached by two men who wanted to start a new Jewish newspaper in New York – they asked him to be a part of the enterprise. It excited him. He thought it would lead to a lot of money and at last financial freedom, so he signed on. But by signing on, he signed on as what appears to be a guarantor of the financial success of the venture. It was not financially successful, Rosenblatt used up his savings as well as a lot of his current income, but the creditors kept gaining on him.

In January 1925, the  failure of the newspaper venture forced Yossele Rosenblatt to file for bankruptcy. Although legally freed of most of his debts, he vowed to repay them anyway.

Israel
Rosenblatt was then offered a chance to participate in the making of a film in Mandatory Palestine. Although payment would depend again on the financial success of the film, he decided to take another chance. For one thing, it would get him away from his creditors, and for another, it would allow him to see Palestine, where he had never been.

With his wife and two youngest children (some of his older children were adults, and they took in their other younger siblings to permit their parents to travel), he went to Palestine, where he decided he would stay, although he apparently was not sure he could support himself in this small pre-State settlement.

Death
He died of a heart attack at the age of 51 on June 19, 1933, in Jerusalem.

Style

He was known for his extraordinary technique, for the sweetness of his timbre, and for his unique ability to transition from normal voice to falsetto with hardly any noticeable break at all.

His technique in cantillation was unique. Notes were hit remarkably accurately at high speeds. Fiorituras, similarly, were struck near perfectly, both rhythmically and on pitch. His fame spread so far that Toscanini appealed to him to sing the leading role in Fromental Halévy's La Juive, but Rosenblatt replied that he would only use his vocal gift for the glory of God, in service to his religion. Notably, he turned down a "golden hello" from the Chicago opera house because it violated his religious principles.

Rosenblatt corresponded with many of the great tenors of his day. It is told that upon hearing Rosenblatt sing "Elli Elli", Enrico Caruso was so moved that he ascended the stage and kissed him.

Legacy
Rosenblatt perhaps exerted the greatest influence on cantorial music's "Golden Age". He led the transition from the more freestyling cadenza-laden approach prevalent before his era to a more structured, metered style. Rosenblatt pioneered the use of several cantorial techniques which have subsequently been adopted by cantors around the world. These include his trademark krekhts, or sob in which he would deliberately allow his voice to crack to convey the emotion of what he was singing. He also developed a realistic soprano falsetto as a method of easing the strain on his overworked voice. A prolific composer, more than one hundred and eighty pieces of his have been preserved.

Rosenblatt's great-grandsons include Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Rosenblatt of the Riverdale Jewish Center and Rabbi Andrew Rosenblatt of Congregation Schara Tzedeck in Vancouver.

Since the 78 RPM era, Rosenblatt's recordings have been re-issued many times in LP and CD format. In recent years, a set of 3 CDs Od Yosef Chai containing restored versions of 78s of Rosenblatt's performances has been issued by Mostly Music and Galpaz Music, a Brooklyn record store.

Rosenblatt's records and singing were featured in the 2009 drama A Serious Man.

External links

 Yossele Rosenblatt, Selected Recitatives (sheet music)
 David Olivestone: Standing Room Only. The Remarkable Career of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt
 First Chazzanut Online article on "Yosef (Yossele) Rosenblatt"
 Second Chazzanut Online article on "Yosef (Yossele) Rosenblatt"
 "The Man with the $50,000 Beard: How a cantor became an American music legend"
 Josef Rosenblatt recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
Yossele Rosenblatt's Bankruptcy

References

1882 births
1933 deaths
Jewish American musicians
Hazzans
American male composers
20th-century American composers
Columbia Records artists
Ukrainian Jews
American Orthodox Jews
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
American emigrants to Israel
People from Bila Tserkva
Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
Jewish Israeli musicians
People from Borough Park, Brooklyn
20th-century American singers
20th-century American male singers
Jewish Ukrainian musicians

Yossele Rosenblatt


Horowitz Horror and More Horowitz Horror are two collections of short horror stories written by Anthony Horowitz, published in 1999 and 2000 respectively. A third set of stories called More Bloody Horowitz (or Bloody Horowitz in the United States) was published in 2009 (and later released as Scared to Death). The first two collections were also published in a single collection called The Complete Horowitz Horror (later released as Horowitz Horror: The Ultimate Collection).

Horowitz Horror was first published in 1999 and contained nine short stories. The stories in Horowitz Horror are written in a mixture of first-person and third-person narrative. Out of the nine stories, two (Light Moves and The Man with the Yellow Face) are conveyed from the viewpoint of the leading character.

Synopsis

Bath Night – A newly installed bath harbours the spirit of a Victorian era axe-murderer. The family's daughter, Isabel, has suspicions about the bath even before discovering this, and refuses to use it, eventually deciding to destroy it. Her parents catch her in the act and she is sent to an asylum. At the end of the story, the father decides to go on a killing spree whilst in the bath.
Killer Camera – A boy buys a camera as a birthday present, unaware that it has been imbued with dark magic – anything that is photographed is destroyed; he searches for his family, who have taken the camera with them on a trip to London. He manages to find them and is relieved to hear that they have not taken any pictures of each other – until he is told that his brother took a picture of the London skyline.
Light Moves – A computer formerly owned by now-deceased horse-racing journalist, Ethan Sly, has the power to give horse racing tips. A schoolboy is given the computer as a present, and ends up being forced by the local bully to give him the names of the winners. However, one of the names it gives – "Light Moves" – is the name of a company whose van runs over the bully.
The Night Bus – On Halloween night, two brothers returning home from a party, go on an unexpected bus tour of London's cemeteries.
Harriet's Horrible Dream – A rich girl's family no longer has enough money to support her and she has been sold to a restaurant owned by a family friend which serves human meat. Then she wakes up, realising that it was all a nightmare – until she looks at her surroundings.
Scared – A school bully gets his comeuppance while walking through the countryside.
A Career in Computer Games – A boy who has recently left school with no qualifications, due to his obsession with computer games, thinks he has found the job of a lifetime testing an upcoming video game, but finds himself trapped in a brutally realistic world where countless men in black suits shoot at him.
The Man with the Yellow Face – A boy gets his photo taken at a train station, in a sinister photo booth which produces pictures that foretell future events. The picture he gets shows a grown up with a hideously deformed yellow face. The train he boards crashes and injures him severely, leaving him with the same yellow face as the one in the photo.
The Monkey's Ear – A family purchases a monkey's ear able to grant wishes. Although there is one catch – it is partially deaf. So when the father shouts at his son to go to hell, they don't know where he has gone.

More Horowitz Horror
More Horowitz Horror was published as a sequel collection in 2000. The book is marketed as containing eight stories. However, the tales obviously written by Horowitz himself are supplemented by an allegedly unauthorised add-on, written satirically by a serial killer.

As with its forerunner, More Horowitz Horror is not confined to third-person narrative. "The Hitchhiker" and "Twist Cottage" are written in first-person, while "Burnt" (renamed as Burned in the US release) is expressed as a series of diary entries. Meanwhile, "The Shortest Horror Story Ever Written" communicates directly with the reader through second-person narrative.

Synopses
The Hitchhiker – A family is on their way home from a day at the seaside when they unwittingly allow a psychopath, supposedly from the nearby asylum, into their car (A clue to his real identity is the false name – "Mr. Rellik" – he gives them, which spelt backwards is Killer). Only the son works out the truth, but his parents do not believe him. He pushes the hitchhiker out of the car and he is killed. It is then revealed that the hitchhiker was actually a gardener for the lunatic asylum, and that his name is Mr. Renwick (not "Rellik" as the boy misheard.) We then learn that the boy himself is an inmate of the asylum, and was out on day release for the first time after being committed to the asylum for pushing his older brother in front of a train and killing him. He is returned to the asylum following the murder of Mr. Renwick.
The Sound of Murder – A deaf schoolgirl learns the horrifying truth behind her new French teacher through her malfunctioning hearing aid, and then hears his plans to murder her, too.
Burnt (North American title: "Burned") – While on holiday in Barbados, a boy called Timothy has concerns about his uncle, who is desperate to get a suntan. Timothy's aunt, who no longer loves her husband, has replaced the sun tan lotion with cooking oil, burning her husband's skin.
Flight 715 – A girl has a nightmare, in which she foresees that the airliner which is about to fly her family home from a vacation in Vancouver is destined to crash. Since her family do not believe her, the girl takes matters into her own hands. She wanders off on her own – making it impossible for her family to travel – and only returns after the aircraft has taken off. What neither she nor her family find out is that the aircraft is damaged in flight, and that if their extra weight had been on board, it wouldn't have landed safely and the girl's nightmare would have come true.
Howard's End – A delinquent teenage boy is run over by a bus and finds himself in Heaven – or so he thinks. He becomes bored with the idyllic existence, and wants to move to Hell – but it is revealed he was there all along (this story is similar to the Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit").
The Lift (North American title: "The Elevator") – A police detective investigates the strange disappearance of a spoiled boy at Covent Garden tube station. The boy got into an elevator, but never came out. The inspector comes to the conclusion that the boy was in a lift with a group of cannibals.
The Phone Goes Dead – A teenage boy discovers that his mobile phone can receive calls from the dead, after its last owner died while using it. He repeatedly receives messages telling him to tell people about how to deal with their death, but he never tells anybody. His parents later receive a phone call from him – after he has been killed in a bus accident on a school trip.
Twist Cottage – A man goes to sinister lengths to rid himself and his son of his dreadful second wife by moving to a cottage haunted by the ghost of a witch who kills any woman who enters.
The Shortest Horror Story Ever Written – An add-on to the book purportedly written by a maniac, not Anthony Horowitz. He describes how his own horror story was refused publication, so he set out on a killing spree. If the first letter of each sentence is put together, then the phrase "I am going to murder you soon" is spelled out.

External links
Anthony Horowitz.com
More Horowitz Horror at fantasticfiction.co.uk

1999 short story collections
2000 short story collections
Cannibalism in fiction
Short story collections by Anthony Horowitz
Horror short story collections
Orchard Books books

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