Lucy Catherine Lloyd (7 November 1834 – 31 August 1914) was the creator, along with Wilhelm Bleek, of the 19th-century archive of ǀXam and !Kung texts.

Early life
Lucy Catherine Lloyd was born in Norbury in England on 7 November 1834. Her father, William H.C. Lloyd, Archdeacon of Durban, was the rector of Norbury and vicar of Ranton, two villages in western England in Staffordshire. He was also chaplain to the Earl of Lichfield, to whom he was related through his mother. Lucy Lloyd's mother was Lucy Anne Jeffreys, also a minister's daughter, who died in 1842 when Lucy was eight. Lucy Lloyd was the second of four daughters. Her father remarried in 1844 and had 13 additional children with his new wife. After her mother's death, Lucy and her sisters lived with their maternal uncle and his wife, Sir John and Caroline Dundas, from whom they received a private and apparently liberal education.

In 1847 Robert Gray was consecrated Bishop of Cape Town. William Lloyd was sent to Durban along with his family in April 1849, when Lucy was 14, as colonial and military chaplain to the Colony of Natal's British forces. In 1852 Gray established the Diocese of Natal with John William Colenso as its first bishop. Colenso established his residence at Bishopstowe, near Pietermaritzburg and a party of 45 accompanied him, including the young Wilhelm Bleek who was to assist Colenso as anthropologist and philologist. William Lloyd later became archdeacon of Durban.

The Lloyd family had limited financial means in Durban even though the four older girls had inherited some money from their mother. Lucy and her sisters are said to have had liberal and unorthodox views and Lucy had trained as a teacher. Lucy and Jemima (who was to marry Wilhelm Bleek) were very close, and both were repelled by their father whom they thought to be a hypocrite. After Lucy had refused to allow him to spend her inheritance he threw her out of their home and she went to stay on a farm owned by people called the Middletons. In 1858 Lucy became engaged to the sweet and widely travelled man George Woolley, the son of a minister. According to Lucy's sister Jemima the Middletons were wretched people who sowed distrust and pain between the couple. Lucy broke off the engagement, but she regretted this all her life, blaming herself for George's early miserable death. In a letter she wrote much later to her niece, Helma, on the occasion of the latter's engagement she said: 'May yours (with your dear Mother beside you), have a very different ending. I missed my dear Mother so sorely then, and the loving counsel and advice, which she could have given me. I had only my own theories and inexperience to go upon.'

Collaboration with Wilhelm Bleek
Lucy's sister, Jemima, married Wilhelm Bleek on 22 November 1862 and they had seven children, five of whom survived to adulthood. In the same year as his marriage, Bleek was appointed curator of the Grey Collection at the South African Library in Cape Town.

Lucy travelled to Cape Town from Durban aboard the Natal mail steamer, the SS Waldensian, in October 1862, for the wedding of her sister. The ship ran aground on a reef near Cape Agulhas and, although the passengers and crew were rescued, Lucy lost most of her possessions and wedding gifts, managing to retrieve only a pair of vases for her sister (which she carried on her lap in the lifeboat) and a set of Sir Walter Scott's novels that had washed ashore in good condition as they were wrapped in waterproof packaging.

Lucy settled with her sister and Wilhelm after their marriage. After living at first in New Street, the Bleek family moved to The Hill in Mowbray. Lucy started her work with oral histories on the arrival of the first Xam (Cape Bushman) speaker at Mowbray in 1870, after which she was responsible for two-thirds of the texts recorded until Bleek's death and the publication of their second report to the Cape Parliament in 1875. After Bleek's death, and true to the desire expressed in a codicil to his will written in 1871, Lucy continued working on their joint Bushman studies with the support of her sister, Bleek's widow, Jemima. While Lucy would undoubtedly have done this anyway, his request must surely have bestowed on her work the credibility that, in those days, was usually reserved for male scholars and researchers.

Fanny and Julia Lloyd joined the Bleek and Lloyd household (now at Charlton House, also in Mowbray). Lucy was appointed curator of the Grey Collection as successor to Bleek after his death in 1875, at half his salary, a position she accepted reluctantly. During this time she worked with the Grey Collection and at editing various manuscripts collected by Bleek, as well as continuing with her |Xam research in her own time. She began corresponding with George W. Stow in 1875 about his copies of Bushman art, and in 1876 he proposed a book that would eventually be published (with Lucy's support) in an incomplete form as The Native Races of Southern Africa. Lucy also played an important role in the founding of the SA Folklore Society, for which she acted as secretary for a while, and in the founding of the Folklore Journal in 1879.

Lucy's services at the South African Library were terminated in 1880 when Dr Theophilus Hahn was appointed, after a long and painful saga, in her place. Her relationship with the library had been fraught, and particularly with the Cape Colony's Secretary-General for Education Langham Dale who made the new appointment. She thought Hahn to be a fool and his appointment a disaster. Lloyd and the trustees of the Grey Collection, who supported her, took the case to the Supreme Court for judgment. The appointment, however, went ahead. Hahn resigned two years later, after which no custodian of the collection was appointed.

After Stow's death in 1882, Lloyd purchased his tracings and copies of Bushman paintings as well as the manuscript of Native Races from his wife, Fanny Stow. Lucy then engaged the services of the historian George McCall Theal to work with her on the manuscript and edit it. It was published in London in 1905 along with some photographic images taken from Lucy's own collection.

Return to Europe
Lucy Lloyd and her sister Fanny went to England for a time in 1883, for financial and health-related reasons. Lucy's letters show her to have been ill at the time. Indeed, she described herself as having endured 'years of overwork and many of ill-health'. After the loss of her position at the South African Library, the family had found themselves in a precarious financial position with too many mouths to feed – at times, whole families, numbers of adults as well as children, often in poor health, lived in their home – and Lucy's last recorded work with the Bushmen appears to have been in 1884. All in all, at least 17 people had lived in the Mowbray household between 1870 and 1884, some for extended periods. Expenses included food, clothing and tobacco (according to Bleek's list of expenses for 1871 he also budgeted for the arrival of the informants' wives). After Bleek's death in 1875, followed by the loss of Lloyd's job, Jemima Bleek and Lucy Lloyd were responsible for the upkeep of their various guests and their families, as well as their own sisters and young children.

As a result of these financial constraints, Jemima Bleek moved her family to Germany in 1884 to stay with relatives and receive schooling there, and it appears that the other Lloyd sisters joined them. Lucy Lloyd is believed to have gone to Europe in 1887 – around this time she trained her niece Dorothea in Bushman research – and she moved between Germany, Switzerland, England and Wales, with occasional trips to the Cape around 1905 and 1907. She returned permanently to South Africa in 1912. The Bleek family remained in Germany for the following 21 years.

Contributions and awards
Lucy Lloyd submitted a third report to the Cape Government concerning 'Bushman Researches', dated London 8 May 1889, in which she added 4,534 half-pages or columns to the collection. In 1911 a selection of texts from Bleek and Lloyd's extraordinary project – and a considerable achievement given Lloyd's personal circumstances at the time – was edited by her and published as Specimens of Bushman Folklore.

In 1913 Lloyd received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Cape of Good Hope in recognition of her contribution to research. In the words of the time, the citation read:  She was the first woman to receive this degree in South Africa.

Death

Lucy Lloyd died at Charlton House on 31 August 1914 at the age of 79, and is buried in the Wynberg cemetery in Cape Town near her nieces and nephew and Wilhelm Bleek himself.

See also
ǃKweiten-ta-ǁKen
ǁKabbo

References

Further reading

External links
 The Digital Bleek and Lloyd

1834 births
1914 deaths
African folklore
English folklorists
Karoo
Linguists from South Africa
British women folklorists
Women linguists
British expatriates in South Africa
Linguists of Khoisan languages

Lucy Lloyd


Brookfield Community School is an academy school located on Chatsworth Road (A619) in the west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The school's most recent Ofsted inspection judged it to be 'Good'.

Admissions
Brookfield Community School is a comprehensive secondary school which caters for around 1300 students between the ages 11–18 (Years 7-13), including approximately 300 sixth formers.

Academic performance
In the data for the year 2016/2017, the school had a Progress 8 score of -0.14, indicating that pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 had made less progress, on average, than pupils across England who got similar results at the end of Key Stage 2. The same data shows 57% of pupils achieving a GCSE grade 5 or above in English & Maths.

History
Brookfield Community School's history stretches back to the founding of the Chesterfield Grammar School in 1598. This school taught boys throughout the 17th and 18th century, until its closure in 1832. In 1845, the school was restarted in a new building (which remains on Sheffield Road today, and is now part of Chesterfield College), expanding to a size of around 500 in 1928. Additional land on Storrs Road (on the west side of the town) was acquired in the 1930s, but minimally used due to lack of funds and the Second World War. In 1949, work began on the levelling of playing fields on the site, which was opened in 1953.

The present site of Brookfield (on Chatsworth Road/Brookside, adjacent to the Storrs Road playing fields) was opened for Chesterfield School in 1967. Following the Education Act 1944, the school became a state-sponsored grammar school.

Brookfield Community School was formed in 1991 in a re-organisation of schools in Chesterfield, On 1 April 2011, Brookfield Community School officially gained academy status.

Notable former pupils
 Ian Blackwell, cricketer
 Andrew Bridge, England basketball player
 Tom Latimer, professional wrestler known as Kenneth Cameron
 Dene Cropper, professional football player
 Brett Domino, musician and entertainer
 Ryan Fletcher, musician Lawson
 Rik Makarem, actor
 Ellie Simpson, world para-athlete (100m World Number 2, 200m World Record Holder and GB medalist) and founder of CP Teens UK

Chesterfield Grammar School
 Chris Adams, former Derbyshire and England cricketer.
 Sir Alfred Arnold, Conservative MP from 1895-1900 for Halifax
 Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins
 Charles Balguy, physician
 B. V. Bowden, Baron Bowden, Principal of UMIST 1953-76
 Henry Bradley, lexicographer, President from 1891-3 of the Philological Society
 Francis Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool from 1900–23
 Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin
 Robert Waring Darwin of Elston, botanist
 Sir John Fretwell, UK Ambassador to France from 1982-7
 Ken Gibbons, Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1981–97
 Richard Gillingwater CBE, Dean from 2007-2012 of the Cass Business School, Chief Executive from 2003-6 of Credit Suisse First Boston
 Rt Rev William Godfrey (bishop), Bishop of Peru since 1998
 Ralph Heathcote, writer
 Prof Sir William McCrea, astronomer
 Geoff Miller, England cricketer
 Charles Newcombe, cricketer
 Professor Ian Newton, OBE FRS FRSE, former Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood
 Josiah Pearson, Bishop of Newcastle (Australia) from 1880–90
 Sir Robert Robinson FRSE, Nobel-prize winning organic chemist, and discoverer of the structure of morphine and penicillin, and invented the symbol for benzene in 1923
 Christopher Rowland, former Labour MP from 1964-7 for Meriden
 Sir Robin Saxby, former Chief Executive of ARM Holdings, who made it into a global giant
 Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1758–68
 Captain Edwin Swale CBE DFC, WWI flying ace
 Sir Brian Unwin, President from 1993-99 of the European Investment Bank, and from 2001-13 of the European Centre for Nature Conservation, and Chairman from 1987-93 of HM Customs and Excise
 Sir David Walker (banker), Chairman since 2012 of Barclays, and Morgan Stanley International from 1995–2001, and of the Securities and Investments Board (became the Financial Services Authority) from 1988–92
 Air Marshal Philip Wigglesworth
 Bob Wilson, goalkeeper and former BBC presenter of Football Focus
 Charles Wood, scriptwriter, who co-wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Tumbledown (1988).

Notable former teachers
 Cyril Bibby, biologist; taught biology (1938–40)
 Paul Holmes, History master (1979–83), Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield (2001–10)
 Cec Thompson, former professional rugby league footballer; Head of Economics and Rugby Master (at the school for 17 years, retired 1991)

References

External links

 Brookfield in an Educational League Table
 Ofsted Report (PDF file)
 EduBase

Academies in Derbyshire
Educational institutions established in 1990
Schools in Chesterfield, Derbyshire
1990 establishments in England
Secondary schools in Derbyshire

Brookfield Community School, Chesterfield


The Kolb Studio is a historic structure situated on the edge of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon Village within Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. It was operated from 1904 until 1976 as the photographic studio of brothers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb.

History
In 1902, Emery C. Kolb (1881–1976) and Ellsworth L. Kolb (1876–1960) first arrived at the  south rim of the Grand Canyon. In 1911, they successfully navigated the Colorado River, filming their journey. Built between from 1904 to 1926, the building which they constructed was both a family home and photographic studio for the pioneering Kolb brothers. The building has evolved through two major additions and countless minor changes during its century of existence at Grand Canyon.

After the death of Emery Kolb in 1976, the National Park Service acquired the historic studio. During the 1990s, the Grand Canyon Association renovated the building and converted it to its current state. The Grand Canyon Association now operates an art gallery, bookstore and information inside the building.  The bookstore's proceeds go to support the building, and the store features a tribute to the Kolbs' photographs of mule riders at Grand Canyon. The start of the Bright Angel Trail is to the west of the Kolb Studio.

Restoration project

During 2013 and 2014, the Grand Canyon Association was in the process of restoring and rehabilitating this significant building. Work includes addressing the structural degradation of Kolb Studio.
 a) rectifying drainage problems from public sidewalks and corresponding retaining walls,
 b) stabilizing the concrete entranceway to assure safe continuing access to the facility
 c) repairing and replacing exterior building features (e.g. log and shingle siding, structural beams, gutters, wooden porches) in order to assure long-term structural integrity of the building and
 d) protecting restored exterior surfaces with paints, sealants and other coatings.

See also

Buildings and structures in Grand Canyon National Park
National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand Canyon National Park
Rustic architecture in Arizona

References

Other sources
William C Suran  (1991) The Kolb Brothers of Grand Canyon (Gem Guides Book Company)

Related reading
 Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb (2003) The brave ones : the journals and letters of the 1911–1912 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers by Ellsworth L. Kolb and Emery C. Kolb  (Flagstaff, AZ: Fretwater Press)

External links
 Grand Canyon Association.org: Kolb Studio Art Exhibits
 Grand Canyon Live Webcams (Bright Angel Trail, Kolb Studio, South Entrance)

Grand Canyon
Art museums and galleries in Arizona
Artists' studios in the United States
History museums in Arizona
Buildings and structures in Grand Canyon National Park
Buildings and structures completed in 1926
1904 establishments in Arizona Territory
Museums in Coconino County, Arizona
Tourist attractions in Coconino County, Arizona
American Craftsman architecture in Arizona
Rustic architecture in Arizona

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Renuka Ramnath is an Indian private equity fund manager, and the founder and CEO of Multiples Asset Management Ltd. She is also an independent director of the apparel manufacturer Arvind Ltd., chairperson of the board at Tata Communications, and chairperson of the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Career
Ramnath founded Multiples Asset Management in 2009, with a focus on mid size companies and investments between $15 million and $50 million. The firm's partners include the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board which invested $100 million in 2010.

Prior to founding Multiple Asset Management Ltd., Ramnath was the MD and CEO of ICICI Ventures, the venture capital arm of the ICICI Group, through the period that saw the firm become one of the largest private equity funds in India. She is credited with helping grow the fund from a $100 million proprietary fund to a $2 billion PE fund with third-party capital. In this time she is also credited with raising, managing and divesting the $250 million India Advantage fund, generating a more than triple return on capital. She has also served within the ICICI Group across investment banking, e-commerce, and private equity.

Some of Ramnath's venture investments include investments in Air Deccan, Tata Infomedia, and VA TechWabag.

Ramnath and ICICI Ventures were also the targets of a legal action from Azim Premji's investment company Premji Invest when one of the portfolio companies Subhiksha, a leading discount retailer, ran out of cash and closed over 1,600 stores nationwide. The notice alleged that Ramnath and ICICI Ventures had not revealed the extent of Subhiksha's problems before the sale to Premji Invests.

Ramnath has been featured in listings such as the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business (Business Today, India); India's most Powerful CEO's (Economic Times), the Top 25 Non Bank Women in Finance (US Banker's global list), Asia's Women in the Mix: The Year's Top 50 for Achievement in Business (Forbes), and the Top 25 women in Asian asset management (Asian Investor).

References

External links
 Official Profile at Arvind Ltd website

Indian women bankers
Living people
Private equity and venture capital investors
Indian business executives
Indian venture capitalists
1962 births

Renuka Ramnath


Lauren Yee () is an American playwright.

Early life and education
Yee was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Lowell High School in 2003.

Yee graduated from Yale University in 2007, majoring in English and Theatre Arts. She then attended University of California, San Diego's MFA playwriting program.

Career
Yee is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers' Lab  and a Playwrights' Center Core Writer and has worked under commission from the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Mixed Blood.

Personal life
Yee married Zachary Zwillinger, an attorney, in September 2012 in San Francisco; the couple met at Yale.

Plays
Ching Chong Chinaman  (Berkeley Impact Theatre)
Crevice (Impact Theatre)
The Tiger Among Us (January - February 2013, Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis)
The Hatmakers Wife (developed at PlayPenn New Play Conference in 2011; August 27, 2013 - September 21, 2013, Off-Broadway The Playwrights Realm)
Samsara (February 2015 - March 8, Chicago)
in a word (April 2015, San Francisco Playhouse)
Hookman (May 2015, Encore Theatre Company, San Francisco)
King of the Yees (2015, The Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival)
 The Great Leap (2018, Off-Broadway)
 Cambodian Rock Band (2018, South Coast Repertory)
 The Song of Summer (2019, Trinity Repertory Company)
 Young Americans (2023, Portland Center Stage/Pittsburgh Public Theater)

Awards and honors
(in reverse chronological order)

2019
Doris Duke Performing Artist Award
Steinberg Playwright Award, with a cash award of $50,000.
Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for Cambodian Rock Band, which includes a $25,000 prize.
Whiting Award in Drama
Signature Theatre Company (New York City) Residency 5 program. The program "guarantees playwrights three premieres over five years."

2018
Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play for Cambodian Rock Band.
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist for The Great Leap
Princeton University MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2018–2019 academic year.

2017
 Joseph Kesselring Prize for The Great Leap.

2016
 Will Glickman Playwright Award winner (for in a word)
 Ashland New Play Festival – Women's Invitational winner (for King of the Yees)
 Francesca Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association

2015
 The Kilroys List Top 50 (for King of the Yees and The Tiger Among Us)
 Susan Smith Blackburn nominee (for in a word)
 The Chance Theatre playwright-in-residence
 Theatre Bay Area Award nominee – Outstanding World Premiere Play (for Hookman)

2014
 Lark Playwrights' Week playwright (for The Tiger Among Us)
 Constance Saltonstall Foundation residency Berkeley Rep Ground Floor finalist (for King of the Yees)
 Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Playwrights runner-up (for The Tiger Among Us)

2013
 O'Neill Conference playwright (for Samsara)
 Sundance Theatre Lab finalist (for in a word) Playwrights' Center Core Writer (2013-2016)
 Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant (with the Goodman Theatre, for King of the Yees)
 Playwrights Realm Page One resident playwright
 Second Stage Theatre – Shank playwright-in-residence
 UCross Foundation residency
 L. Arnold Weissberger Award nominee (for Samsara)
 Gerbode Foundation Playwright Commissioning Award (with Encore Theatre Company)

2012
 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee (for Samsara)
 Bay Area Playwrights Festival winner (for Samsara)
 Ma-Yi Writers Lab playwright (2012–present) PEN USA Literary Award for Drama finalist (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
 Time Warner fellow at the Women's Project Playwrights Lab
 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nominee (for Crevice)
 Kitchen Dog Theatre's New Works Festival winner (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
 East West Players' Face of the Future Playwriting Competition third place (for Samsara)
 Aurora Theatre Global Age Project finalist (for in a word)

2011
 PlayPenn Conference playwright (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
 KCACTF's Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award winner (for in a word)
 KCACTF's Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award winner (for in a word)
 IICAS Student Research Travel Grant recipient (for Mu Performing Arts commission)

2010
 MAP Fund grantee (with Mu Performing Arts)
 Hangar Theater Lab Company playwright-in-residence (for in a word)
 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
 El Gouna Writers' Residency fellow

2009
 MacDowell Colony fellow
 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member
 Theatre Bay Area New Works Fund commission (with AlterTheater)
 Wasserstein Prize finalist PONY Fellowship finalist
 Jerome Fellowship finalist (selected)
 American Antiquarian Society – Robert and Charlotte Baron fellow
 Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers fellow
 2008 Princess Grace Award finalist (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grantee Dramatists Guild fellow New York Mills Arts Retreat writer-in-residence
 Edward F. Albee Foundation fellow PlayGround June Anne Baker Prize winner/commission (for Crevice)

2007
 Kumu Kahua Theatre Pacific Rim Prize winner (for Ching Chong Chinaman)

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Writers from San Francisco
Yale College alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
American dramatists and playwrights of Chinese descent
American women dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American women writers

Lauren Yee


A Troll in Central Park or Stanley's Magic Garden is an animated feature made in 1994. It is American, Irish and British. It is an animated fantasy comedy. It was directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It has a rating of 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. A Troll in Central Park (1994) is considered as one of the worst animated features of all time.

References

1994 animated movies
1994 fantasy movies
1994 comedy movies
1990s fantasy-comedy movies
American animated movies
American fantasy-comedy movies
British animated movies
British fantasy movies
British comedy movies
Irish fantasy movies
Irish comedy movies
Movies directed by Don Bluth
Movies directed by Gary Goldman

A Troll in Central Park


The Charles Magnuson Three-Decker is a historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Built about 1912, it is a good example of a Colonial Revival triple decker, built during a local housing construction boom.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Description and history
The Charles Magnuson Three-Decker is located in Worcester's eastern Belmont Street neighborhood, on the east side of Olga Street near its northern end.  It is three stories in height, with a gabled roof and exterior finished in modern siding.  The asymmetrical main facade has a three-tier porch on the right, supported by square posts, and a rounded projecting window bay on the left, which has two sash windows on each level.  The gable end is fully pedimented; the roof cornice once had brackets, but these have been lost.  Other lost feature included rounded posts on the porches, and the use of wooden shingles in the bands between the windows of the rounded bay.  A polygonal window bay projects from one side.

The house was built c. 1912, late in the triple-decker housing boom on Belmont Hill.  Most of the housing in this area was built for mainly Swedish and Finnish immigrants working in Worcester's northern steel and wire factories.  Charles Magnuson, the first owner, was a foreman in a metal goods plant.  Early tenants included a machinist, cabinetmaker and bookkeeper.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Worcester, Massachusetts

References

Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1912
Apartment buildings in Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts
1912 establishments in Massachusetts

Charles Magnuson Three-Decker


Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, () was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Wyandotte, Michigan to the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It was closed in June, 2011 by the Archdiocese of Detroit.

History
In September, 1928, Rev. Father Peter Kruszka, Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, the Felician Sisters from Livonia, Michigan, and zealous parishioners finally realized a long cherished dream and brought into existence the Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, housed in a newly built two-story annex on what was then Electric Street.

The rapid growth of the school in number and advancement in educational standards was due to the unselfish and hard work of the succeeding pastors, especially Rev. Father Ladislaus Krych. Also, to the principals who had carried most of the burden of educating and directing: Sister Mary Simplicia, the pioneer in 1928; Sister Mary Bernadette, excellent teacher and acting principal for the initial years 1928 – 1931; Sister Mary Emmanuel, ardent character builder, crusader for athletics and higher education 1931 – 1935, 1939; Sister Mary Bonifilia, activity-conscious 1935 – 1937, Sister Mary Cantia 1937 – 1940 who promoted the growth of the school; Sister Mary Emmanuel, 1940 – 1946, under whose efficient principalship the school reached its highest standards: improvements in the curriculum to meet the needs of the students and in the school's facilities, installments and additions to aid the teachers in their schoolwork, which was possible through the cooperation and understanding of the pastor-professor, Fr. Krych.

A school's reputation is measured by definite standards, mainly by the recognized educational agencies. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School passed its tests successfully and since 1933 it had been accredited by various associations, namely, the University of Michigan, the Catholic University of America, and then later, MNSSA (Michigan Non-Public School Accrediting Association). Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School had all of the licenses, approbations, and accreditations by the State of Michigan authorities which placed it among some of the best schools in the nation.

The school closed in 2011 due to a decline in enrollment.

In the 1940s, Father Krych himself sponsored ten annual scholarships to the high school. Students from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, St. John Cantius (Delray), St. Stanislaus Kostka (Wyandotte), and St. Helena (Wyandotte) benefited from these by competitive examinations held in their own schools. Father Krych had also sponsored a $600 scholarship to Madonna College in Livonia. Also, an anonymous benefactor from New Boston, Michigan also sponsored many scholarships to the high school and elementary school specifically for students from New Boston.

The early enrollment at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School showed a steady upward rise. In 1928, the opening school year numbered 26 children; first year of the full high school in 1932 was 127 children. The curriculum began in 1928 with required subjects only,  and as the enrollment increased it was extended to include general and vocational subjects; ethics, science, mathematics, languages, commercial sciences, social studies, home economics, drafting, music, and gym. During World War II, relevant courses came in aeronautics, occupations, first aid, nutrition, and home nursing. Increase in courses entitled a need of a larger teaching staff. Among the majority of a lay staff, the Felician Sisters of Livonia faithfully served the children of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel until its close in 2011.

"Class A School"

The school facilities, in its day, placed Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School in Class A category: the library had thousands of volumes of fiction and non-fiction, twelve sets of encyclopedias, many subscriptions to magazines, the laboratory was completely equipped for physics and chemistry, the music studio had an excellent supply of school instruments for band and orchestra, and an excellent drama department. In addition to the school's intellectual pursuits Our Lady of Mt. Carmel offered extracurricular activities in the form of clubs. Teachers, artists and many other vocational fields had the opportunity to express themselves in club activities. Those with acting talents performed in dramas throughout Mount Carmel's history. In 1945, Mount Carmel produced its first operetta "Hats Off." Other operetta's included: "Don Alonso's Treasure" (1947), An Old Kentucky Garden" (1949), and "Student Prince" was presented in 1948 in honor of Fr. Krych on the occasion of his 25th – year Silver Jubilee of ordination to the priesthood. Also, the Drama department portrayed the drama "Conquered" in honor of the Parish's Golden Jubilee in 1949. In the late-1940s, visual aids included a movie projector, film strip, recording machine, and a phonograph.

In 1943, school publications started with the schoolpaper, "The Carmont", and in 1948 the first yearbook was published, "The Carmion". Many editors, staff and moderators have strived to incorporate the high ideals of good journalism.  In 1971, another hardcover yearbook was published entitled Terminus.

Aside of its intellectual pursuits, the school offered an extracurricular religious program in addition to its regular ethics classes: annual retreats, the Junior Unit Holy Name Society for boys reorganized by Father Krych at the beginning of his pastorate at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to foster spiritual growth and more frequent reception of the sacraments, the St. Casimir Society (altar boys),  St. Theresa's Sodality for girls, and school membership in the CSMC Unit as a part of a Catholic Action program dating back to 1929.

Sports and other activities

Early beginnings

Fr. Kruszka and Fr. Krych were the outstanding spiritual advisers and athletic directors in the history of the school. The latter especially had endeared himself to the students by his charity, fatherly care, and by his founding and fostering of an extensive athletic program: Baseball (1942), Basketball (1936); Rowing (1944); Football (1945); and girls Basketball (1944). Trophies from all sports dating back to the early 1940s are kept safe inside the school. The Ushers Club and the Friends of the Comets organizations had furnished funds for athletics and other needs of the school. The Oak Club, a non-parish organization, had been the financial purse for the athletic program at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel for many years.

Founding of The Oak Club

In the spring of 1945, Fr. Krych was toying with the idea of introducing football in the fall of the same year. He approached Thomas Watkowski with the idea of getting some men together to raise funds for football equipment. Six young men, Robert Bednarek, Alex Uszynski, John Jacobs, Henry Stec, Frank Wszelaki, and Thomas Watkowski formed a committee and sponsored a dance on September 22, 1945, netting a profit of $930 which was presented to the Athletic Fund of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School. Encouraged by their first success, the committee increased its membership by nine young men – Anthony Siemion, Peter Jablonski, Betram Lange, Leonard Kowaleski, Albert Hebda, Roman Watkowski, Walter Przytula, Steve Tar, and Len Stoh. They all laid plans to sponsor another success and $500 was donated toward the purchase of a rowing shell and $600 towards the purchase of instruments for the Mt. Carmel Band. Enthusiasm, close cooperation, and friendly relationships inspired the first fifteen men to form a club. Thus, the present Oak Club was founded on December 9, 1945, with the sole aim of furthering athletics through funds procured by means of various social activities. In 1949, the Oak Club was as generous as ever. The monthly dances, the dance of the year with Skitch Henderson at Wyandotte Chemicals, the annual picnic with the car raffle afforded funds enough to support the school's advertising program to pay for the transportation of the teams, the organization of the Mt. Carmel Legion team, all totaling to $1,250.

Boys' basketball

In 1939, the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Basketball Squad was renamed "The Comets". Under Coach Szydlowski they finished two seasons. Later, Joe Piatek was named coach. He coached one championship team before enlisting in the Marines in 1942. Leaving before the title game with St. Josephat (Detroit), the former coach ended the season. Bob Bednarek took the leadership of the team during the seasons extending from 1942 – 1946. In these years he led them into two divisional and one district championship.

School band

In 1940, Sister Mary Emmanuel initiated the first Our Lady of Mount Carmel band. Sister Mary Paulette directed the band along with Mr. E. Jensen as band instructor. Band awards were won by Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the first time in Wyandotte, July 4, 1948. Prizes consisted of : first place for best music, for best drum major, for best drilled band, and tied with Theoedore Roosevelt High School (Wyandotte) for best dressed band. Prizes amounted to $225.00. In 1968, Mount Carmel's marching band ceased to exist, but the orchestra lingered on until 1971. The school also had a glee club for several years.

Baseball

"The Comets" took to baseball in 1942 when they played in the city recreation league. They took top awards by downing all opposition. Although they made a fine showing, baseball was discontinued the following season. After a three-year lapse, in 1945, the Comets took to the diamonds and under Rev. Father Wyrzykowski won one of their four games. The next season found Joe Piatek at the helm of a team that captured the West Side title. On June 6 they met St. Florian (Hamtramck) at Briggs Stadium and almost turned in the greatest upset of the season when a seventh inning rally fell short of the mark. The final score read: St. Florian 3, Mt. Carmel 1. With this game they closed the season. In 1947, the Comets set out to retain their title, but, as the season got under way, it was evident that they lost the spark that sent them forth the previous year. After the final tally was taken, the Comets were found in second place.

Football

Football was introduced into Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School in 1945. The initial game was played on Sunday, September 30. That year the Comets were under the supervision of Roman Watkowski and Captain Henry Lojewski. Although they won only one of seven grid battles, they showed great promise. During this season, the Knights of Columbus donated a victory trophy which went to the victor of the annual Mt. Carmel – St. Patrick game. In 1946, Fr. Krych named Joe Piatek as coach and Roman Watkowski as his assistant. The Comets finished their season tied for third place by winning 5 and losing 2. A majority of returning letter winners were on hand when the Comets began practice for their third season of league play under the direction of Coach Piatek. A month later, the first league game was played which ended in a scoreless tie with Sacred Heart (Dearborn). Following this contest, there were two victories before the Comets were dropped by St. Patrick for the third straight year in the battle for the Knights of Columbus trophy.  A layoff of one week followed, allowing time for the hurt Comets to lick their wounds. The remaining opposition seemed to be no match for Mt. Carmel as they rolled over all opponents finishing the season with possession of second place.

Rowing

In 1944, with a borrowed four shell and the hope of establishing a new era in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Athletic program, a trailblazing crew began practice with no established coach. This four doubled in 1945. That year the crew was coached by Ed Kalisiewicz, who was to become coach for three more years. Although no outstanding meets were won, that eight was the first Catholic High School Crew in the State of Michigan. In 1946, the first victory came on June 8. Later, they became Midwest Champions by winning four out of seven races. On May 24, 1947, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel entered a four in the National Scholastic Rowing Regatta held in Wyandotte and by winning that, they became the National Schoolboy Champs.

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Grid computing is a form of distributed computing whereby a "virtual supercomputer" is made up of a group of networked, loosely coupled computers, working together to perform very large tasks. It is different from cluster computing, where the computers are similar and work together on a large task. The computers involved in grid computing can be quite different from one another. They work on separate pieces of the larger problem.

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Subcircus were a Britpop band from London. They had two singles make an entry in the UK Singles Chart in 1997.

Career
Peter Bradley formed Subcircus in late 1994. The rest of the band was made up of Nikolaj Bloch (guitar), whom Bradley found through an advert in Melody Maker, the latter's drumming friend and Danish compatriot Tommas Arnby, and George Brown (bass).

Their first concert was in York, England in 1995. By May 1996, Subcircus had played more than 150 shows throughout the UK, headlining two nightclub tours and opening for Echo & the Bunnymen, Suede, Elvis Costello, Grant Lee Buffalo, Stereophonics and Ocean Colour Scene.

Their debut album, Carousel, was recorded in London at Air Studios, and at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, Somerset. It was issued in the UK by the independent Echo label in 1996, and drew critical raves from the UK press. Through 1997 the band released the singles "86'd" and "U Love U". Later in the year, "86'd" was re-released along with the album which featured a new track sequence. "I heard them on the Evening Session and I thought they sounded fantastic," remarked Radiohead's Ed O'Brien. "I've listened to the album a couple of times and I still can't hear that they sound like us, not at all."

Subcircus was quiet for over two years but reappeared in 1999 with the single "Do You Feel Loved". This was followed by support slots for label mates Feeder in October. In 2000, on Valentine's Day, the band issued a new single, "Sixty Second Love Affair". In March, their second full-length album, Are You Receiving? was released to lukewarm reviews.

Discography

Albums
 Carousel (1996)
 Are You Receiving? (2000)

Singles
"You Love You" (1997) - UK No. 61
"86'd" (1997) - UK No. 56
"Do You Feel Loved" (1999)
"For Those Who Cannot Weep" (1999)
"Sixty Second Love Affair" (2000)

References

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Biography of Subcircus at music.us
[ Biography of Subcircus] at allmusic.com
Biography of Subcircus at the-universal.com
Review of "86'd"
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Luigia Boccabadati (1800-12 Oct 1850) was an Italian operatic soprano.

Born in Modena, Boccabadati made her professional opera debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 1817. She then appeared in opera houses in Venice and Rome. She performed the roles of Giulietta in Nicola Vaccai's Giulietta e Romeo and the title heroine in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Margherita d'Anjou at La Scala in 1826. She went on to appear in five world premiere in operas by Gaetano Donizetti in Naples, singing Amelia in Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Sela in Il diluvio universale (1830), Cristina in I pazzi per progetto (1830), the title role in Francesca di Foix (1831), and Chiarina in La romanziera e l'uomo nero (1831). She retired from the stage in 1844 and died in Turin six years later at the age of 50.

Her daughters Augusta (1821?-1875) and  (1828-1922) were also well-known sopranos.

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The National Football League has seen a quarterback passer rating of zero posted 148 times in either regular season or postseason play.

To achieve a passer rating of zero in a game, a QB must have no touchdowns, complete no more than 30% of his pass attempts, average less than three yards per attempt, throw an interception on at least 9.5% of attempts and attempt at least ten passes.

Terry Bradshaw posted a zero rating on a record three occasions, while eight other QBs have two games of zero; Gary Keithley is the only QB ever to post zero ratings in two straight weeks (1973).

There have been three occasions where a starting QB, and his mid-game replacement, have both earned a zero rating in the same game: starter Joe Namath and replacement Richard Todd with the New York Jets (1976), starter Vince Evans and replacement Bob Avellini with the Chicago Bears (1981), and starter Terry Bradshaw and replacement Cliff Stoudt with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1982).

Only once have opposing QBs both posted a zero rating: Gary Keithley and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated Bob Lee and the Atlanta Falcons (1973). No starting QB with a passer rating of zero has won the game since Norm Snead in 1976.

Thirteen QBs who had a zero passer rating also earned a perfect (158.3) passer rating during their careers: Otto Graham, Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Terry Bradshaw, Len Dawson, Bob Griese, James Harris, Bob Lee, Scott Hunter, Dan Fouts, Craig Morton, Vince Evans, Rich Gannon, Eli Manning, and Peyton Manning.

The Buffalo Bills have held opposing QBs to a zero passer rating more than any other franchise, having accomplished the feat eight times, as of 2021.

List

See also
List of NFL quarterbacks who have posted a perfect passer rating

References

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List of NFL quarterbacks who have posted a passer rating of zero


Konstantinoupoleos Avenue () is named after Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and is an avenue in the center-western suburbs of Athens. It links the western part of Agios Ioannis Rentis to the northern part of Sepolia, which links with a road to Kamatero.  The western part has several lanes and the eastern part is a city street, while the rest of the route is a major road that is used as access to Kallirois Street which links with Vouliagmenis Avenue as well as Vasileos Konstantinou Avenue, thus linking the western suburbs of Athens to the southern ones, bypassing the downtown section.

History
Construction began on an underpass when traffic increased on Lenorman Avenue in the mid-20th century.  Later in the mid to late 20th century, construction began on an overpass with Petrou Ralli Avenue and a junction in the northwestern section.  In 1992, a part of the avenue shut down detouring Athinon Avenue (GR-8 and GR-8A, E94 westbound) and redirected the traffic through Palamidou Street and the southern half of Lenorman Avenue.  It lasted for about a year when an overpass was built with an Athens-bound exit and a westbound entrance and the road was finally re-opened. Between 1993 and 1994, construction began at Konstantinoupoleos and another avenue linking with Kallirois Street and an interchange with Pireos Street.  It removed the railway crossing and an underpass about 500 m long. The northern part ran through the railway crossings while the avenue link runs below.

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Antigone Costanda () (, born on November 13, 1932 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian designer, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1954. The pageant took place on October 18, 1954, in London, England with the participation of 16 contestants. In addition to Arabic, Costanda speaks Greek, English, Italian and French fluently. The Greek-Egyptian beauty was the first Miss Egypt candidate to win the title of Miss World for Egypt.

According to Eric Morley's 1967 book, "The Miss World Story", Costanda was positively beaming as she claimed that her victory was also for the Miss World 1953 second runner-up status of Marina Papaelia.

The following year, during the 1955 Miss World beauty pageant held in London, Costanda did not attend the event because of political hostilities between Egypt and Britain over the Suez Canal. British actress Eunice Gayson crowned Miss Venezuela as the new Miss World.

Prior to winning Miss World, Costanda was gaining experience in the modelling profession and was appearing in numerous publications. Winning Miss World further helped her to reach the top of her profession, becoming a successful model in the Middle East, France, Italy and Greece. Her career in later years moved into interior design. She ran a company designing the interior of business buildings. She was one of the judges at the Miss Egypt 2006 contest.

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Nadezhda  (, Hope) was a cockroach that was sent into space during the Foton-M 3 bio-satellite flight between September 14 and 26, 2007 by Russian scientists. Scientists monitoring the mission from Voronezh announced that Nadezhda had successfully produced 33 offspring on Earth, these 33 insects being the first earthlings known to be conceived in conditions of weightlessness. Nadezhda and the rest of the insects were traveling inside a sealed special container, and a video-camera was filming the whole process.

What was considered unnatural for the newborn cockroaches was that their carapace had darkened in colour much earlier, in comparison with natural-condition cockroaches who develop that darker tone later in their life cycle. But the rest of the conditions and capacities of the cockroaches remained normal. Later it was reported that Nadezhda's grandchildren, born to one of the space-born insects, had given birth on Earth to normal cockroaches, with a life cycle and development similar to that of any other cockroach.

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Terrence B. "Terry" Miller (November 10, 1942 – April 13, 1989) was an American businessman and politician.  Miller served as the fourth lieutenant governor of Alaska from 1978 to 1982.  His political career, which began while he was in his early 20s, lasted over two decades and was cut short by his death from lung cancer at age 46.

Early life
Terry Miller was born in San Francisco, California on November 10, 1942, the second of four children and second of three sons of Con B. and Nellie Miller.  Con Miller came to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1949 and soon began working as a fur trader in rural Interior Alaska.  Not long after, he brought the rest of his family to Alaska and settled in the Davis Subdivision, about  southeast of Fairbanks.  This became the fledgling community of North Pole, where the Miller family established a trading post and general store along the Richardson Highway called the Santa Claus House in 1952.  For many years, the Santa Claus House also served as North Pole's post office.

Miller attended school in North Pole and Fairbanks, graduating from Lathrop High School in 1961.  He then attended the University of Alaska, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Omega.  He graduated from UA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965.

Political career
The Miller family were politically active.  Con Miller served on North Pole's first city council in 1953, and later served as mayor of North Pole.  Nellie Miller was also active in local politics.

Terry Miller was elected to the North Pole city council, taking office two days after his 21st birthday, which was the minimum age for the office.  Not long after, the Fairbanks North Star Borough was incorporated and he was appointed the city council's representative to the borough assembly, its governing body (or legislative branch).  Miller was the youngest member of the FNSB assembly, and as the body's presiding officer in 1965, the youngest person to hold that office.

In 1966, he was elected to represent Fairbanks in the Alaska House of Representatives.  He campaigned little, as he was drafted into military service that year.  He completed basic training at Fort Ord, then began a long stint in the National Guard.  After one term in the House, he was elected to the Alaska Senate.  He served in the Senate from 1969 to 1977, and was the Senate's president during the 8th Alaska State Legislature (1973 to 1975).

He was elected lieutenant governor and served from 1978 to 1982.  His chief of staff as lieutenant governor was Pete Rouse, whom Miller met while both attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Rouse, in turn, recruited a young newspaper editor named Kim Elton to work in the lieutenant governor's office.  Both Elton and Rouse would go on to become officials in the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama.

Miller also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 1974, and the Republican nomination for governor in 1982.  In both cases, he lost the primary election to more conservative opponents (C. R. Lewis in 1974, Tom Fink in 1982), who went on to lose to their Democratic opponents in the general election.  In 1986, Miller once again won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, running on the Republican ticket alongside Arliss Sturgulewski.

Business career
Miller was involved with his family in the management of the Santa Claus House, which evolved from its humble beginnings to its modern-day incarnation as a tourist attraction centered around a Christmas-themed gift shop.  The Miller family later established a similar business in Anchorage, at the corner of the Seward Highway and O'Malley Road.  The Anchorage venture was short-lived, however;  the building now houses a ski shop.

Along with several partners, Miller launched an unsuccessful attempt in 1983 to purchase Alaska magazine from Robert A. "Bob" Henning, the magazine's publisher of a quarter century.  Henning sold the magazine several years later, citing ill health.  Miller's partners in this venture were later responsible for building The Center, a short-lived entertainment complex in west Fairbanks, currently home to the Fairbanks Sears store.

Death and legacy

Miller was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1988.  He moved to Seattle, Washington to begin treatment, but the cancer continued to spread.  He died at his Seattle home on the morning of April 13, 1989, at age 46.

The former Juneau High School building in downtown Juneau was purchased by the Alaska Legislature and renovated to accommodate legislative offices.  The building was christened the Terry Miller Legislative Office Building, pursuant to legislation sponsored by Senator Jerry Ward.  A park in North Pole, located on part of the original Santa Claus House site, was named the Terry Miller Memorial Park.

Personal life
Miller married Terry Lucille Niemann in Palmer, Alaska on July 20, 1963.  They had a daughter, Jennifer. In 1976 Miller married Janice Dani Bowman, MD, Phd, and had a daughter, Amanda Leslie in 1981.

His younger brother Mike W. Miller (born 1951) followed in his political footsteps.  Mike Miller represented North Pole in both houses of the Alaska Legislature from 1983 to 2001.  He also was a member of Governor Frank Murkowski's cabinet, serving as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration.

References

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Patrick B. Byrne (born March 8, 1956, in London, England) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who has won three Breeders' Cup races and who in 1997 conditioned Favorite Trick to American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and American Horse of the Year honors and Countess Diana to American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly honors.

A native of London, England, Byrne was from a family involved in horse racing. He rode horses in Europe before emigrating to the United States in 1978 where he worked in New York as an exercise rider. He then spent eight years learning the training business from trainers such as LeRoy Jolley, John Russell, Howard Tesher and David Whitely before taking out his trainers license in 1986.

In 1998, Patrick Byrne trained Awesome Again to an undefeated year that was capped off with a win in the Breeders' Cup Classic.

Byrne makes his home in Louisville, Kentucky, where he settled in 1990, competing from a base at Churchill Downs.

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Jacques Émile Blamont (; 13 October 1926 – 13 April 2020) was a French astrophysicist, author and the founder scientific and technical director of National Centre for Space Studies (CNES-Centre national d'études spatiales), known to have contributed to the development of Veronique, the first rocket launched by France in 1957. He was an elected fellow of the French Academy of Technologies and a professor emeritus of the Pierre and Marie Curie University (University of Paris VI).

Blamont was a recipient of several national honours such as Commander of the Legion of Honour, the third highest French civilian honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, the second highest French civilian honour, Commander of the Academic Palms, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, the highest French civilian honour, President's Silver Medal, Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples and Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Blamont died on 13 April 2020 in Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine, aged 93.

Biography
Jacques Blamont was born in Paris in France on 13 October 1926 and did his studies at the École Normale Supérieure where he came in contact with the Nobel laureate, Alfred Kastler, who was serving the institution as a professorial chair. He graduated from École Normale Supérieure in 1948 and continued his studies at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an associate of physical sciences. In 1952, he reunited with Alfred Kastler in research on atomic coherence phenomenon and secured his doctoral degree (Doctor of Science) under his guidance in 1956.

Blamont continued at CNRS for a year more as a research fellow and joined the Aeronomy Service of the institution in 1957 where he became the deputy director in 1958. In 1961, he was promoted as the director, a post he held till 1985. He worked in many capacities during his stay with CNES, as a Scientific and Technical Director (1962-1972), as Top Scientific Advisor (1972-1982) and as an advisor to the President of CNES from 1982. During this period, he served the Pierre and Marie Curie University as a professor without chair from 1957 to 1961, as a full professor from 1962 to 1996 and as a professor emeritus from there on. He also worked as a research director at École Militaire (Joint Defence College).

He was made the first Vikram Sarabhai professor at the Physical Research Laboratory in 1977, a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1985 and a distinguished visiting scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory during 1980–2001. He was a member of International Academy of Astronautics (1969), Indian National Science Academy (1978), National Academy of Sciences, USA (1980), Air and Space Academy (1983), Academia Europaea (1989), Academy of Technology (2000), French Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society(2002). He was also a member of the advisory council of the Planetary Society.

Legacy

Blamont was one of the pioneers of French space programme and his efforts were reported in the establishment of CNES, the French Space Agency, in 1962. He was known to have contributed to the launch of the first French rocket, Véronique, in 1957. He was one of the founders of Service d'aéronomie du CNRS, (Aeronomy Service of Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and was its director from 1958 to 1985. He participated, as a member of the steering groups, in several global space missions such as the Voyager and Pioneer-Venus of NASA and Vega mission of the Soviet Union to Venus and Halley's Comet and acted as the chief investigator of the Phobos program of the USSR. He assisted Vikram Sarabhai in the establishment of the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) which later grew to become the present day Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and played a part in providing the payload for the first two Indian rocket launches in 1963 and 1964.

Blamont was credited with the discovery of turbopause in 1959, the interstellar wind in 1970, the hydrogen envelope of comets in 1971 and the polar noctilucent clouds in 1973. He was known to have made the measurement of the temperature of the neutral atmosphere from 100 to 500 km, the dynamic parameters of the mesopause region, and Einstein's general relativity redshift on the Sun for the first time. He was the head of the group which introduced scientific ballooning and Lidar technology for atmospheric probing in Europe. The image compression device developed by Blamont is in use with various space agencies for planetary missions around the Moon, Mars and Titan. He also contributed to the establishment of a launch range, in Kourou, French Guiana.

Blamont, besides writing several articles on science, authored four books, viz. Vénus dévoilée, Voyage autour d'une planète (Venus Unveiled – 1987), Le Chiffre et le Songe, Histoire politique de la découverte (The Digit and the – 1993), Le Lion et le Moucheron, Histoire des Marranes de Toulouse (The Lion and the Midge – 2000) and Introduction au Siècle des Menaces (Introduction to the Age of Menaces – 2004). He also mentored 80 research scholars in their doctoral research.

Awards and recognition
Blamont received three of the highest French civilian honours, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit and Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit apart from the honour of the Commander of the Order of Academic Palms and the Silver Medal from the President of the French Republic in 1967. He received the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples from the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1989 and the Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri in 2015. He was a winner of NASA awards twice, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1972 and NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 2000 and the French Academy of Sciences honoured him two times, Leon Grelaud Prize in 1960 and Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet in 1967. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Indian Space Research Organization awarded him the Yuri Gagarin Medal in 1985 and the Vikram Sarabhai Medal in 1994 respectively. He won three awards from the International Academy of Astronautics, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Award in 1967, Guggenheim Medal in 1986 and Von Karman Award in 1989. He was also a recipient of Rovel H. Prize from the Faculty of Paris in 1957, Aimé Cotton prize of the French Physical Society in 1960, CNES Vermeil medal in 1967, Spie prize, French Roberval Prize in 1993, Gold Medal of the Guiana Space Center in 1995, George N. Goddard Award from the International Society for Optical Engineering in 1997, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Space Science Award in 2004
and Prix International d'Astronautique (International Astronautics Prize), formerly known as Prix REP-Hirsch in 2019.

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Clerodendrum thomsoniae is a species of flowering plant in the genus Clerodendrum of the family Lamiaceae, native to tropical west Africa from Cameroon west to Senegal. It is an evergreen liana growing to  tall, with ovate to oblong leaves  cm long. The flowers are produced in cymes of 8–20 together, each flower with a pure white to pale purple five-lobed calyx 2.5 cm in diameter, and a red five-lobed corolla 2 cm long and in diameter. The flowers are born in cymose inflorescences arising from the axils of the leaves. The leaves, in turn, are arranged opposite to each other and at right angles to the pairs above and below.

An unambiguous common name is bleeding glory-bower; terms like "glory-bower", "bagflower" or "bleeding-heart vine" are also often encountered but can refer to any of the roughly 400 species of Clerodendrum. In some regions it has escaped from cultivation and become naturalised.

It is grown as an ornamental plant for its decorative two-coloured flowers. With a minimum temperature of , in temperate areas it requires shelter and a frost-free environment. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).

The plant was named at the request of Rev. William Cooper Thomson (1829-22 March 1878), a missionary and physician in Nigeria, in honor of his late first wife. This plant was very popular during the mid 19th century under the name "beauty bush".  It lost favour only when its unusual culture conditions were forgotten.  Specifically, its root system must be partially submerged in water most of the time, and it wants very good light.

Etymology
Clerodendrum is derived from Greek and means 'chance tree'.

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Scott Lithgow, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company.

History
The company was formed in 1967 by the merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows. Scott Lithgow was based in Port Glasgow and Greenock on the lower Clyde in Scotland. Scott Lithgow was nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. Reorganisation of Scott Lithgow in 1981 saw all the assets of its subsidiary companies transferred under the direct operational control of Scott Lithgow.

From 1980, the company became the centre of British Shipbuilders' Offshore Division and it was hoped that the offshore semi-submersible market would lead the yard back to profitability. However the Ocean Alliance semi-submersible construction was a disastrous contract for the company, with the rig eventually delivered four years late and at a loss of over £200 million.

In 1984 Trafalgar House bought the company and the Company ceased to trade in 1993.

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Lawrence Joseph Dwyer (2 February 1884 – August 1964) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative fullback who captained the Wallabies in 1913.

Dwyer, a fullback, was born in Orange, New South Wales. He was schooled at the Patrician Brothers School in Orange but left school at age 12 and worked as a clerk in a solicitor's office while playing rugby for the Orange Waratahs club.

Rugby career
Dwyer first came to public notice playing for a Western Districts representative side of country New South Wales in 1908. He made his New South Wales representative debut in 1910 appearing in two games against a touring All Blacks side playing alongside other future Wallaby captains in Sydney Middleton, Ward Prentice, Ted Fahey and Fred Wood. His performances in those matches saw him picked to make his international debut for Australia in a Test match against those same touring New Zealand All Blacks in Sydney on 25 June 1910. He was picked for all three Test matches of the tour and gave an outstanding defensive performance in the 2nd Test which Australian won 11–0. He made further state appearances for New South Wales that year and was selected in a Central-Western representative side which met a touring American Universities team.

He was selected in the Wallabies squad for the 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States. The tour was a disappointment with the squad billeted out in college fraternity houses where the hospitality played havoc with team discipline and as result the team lost against two California University sides and three Canadian provincial sides. In 1913 he was picked at captain for New South Wales and for Western Districts in matches against the visiting New Zealand national side.

The pinnacle of Dwyer's representative career was in 1913 when he was selected to captain the 1913 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand on a tour of New Zealand. He played in three tour matches before being injured and consequently missed the first two Tests of the tour. He was back for two more tour games and the third Test which Australia won 16–5. He made three further Test appearances in 1914 when New Zealand toured Australia at the outbreak of World War I.

Dwyer played thirty-one times for New South Wales in a ten-year career that continued until he was thirty-five. He claimed a career total of twenty-four appearances for Australia, six as captain. Eight of those games were international Test caps, one as captain.

References

Bibliography
 Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead - Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ

Footnotes

External links
http://www.espnscrum.com/australia/rugby/player/2147.html  Dwyer's Rugby Career from StatsGuru

Australian rugby union players
Australian rugby union captains
Australia international rugby union players
1884 births
1964 deaths
Rugby union players from New South Wales
Rugby union fullbacks
People from Orange, New South Wales

Larry Dwyer


Dark Souls

Dark Souls is an action RPG made by Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware. It is the sequel to Demon's Souls.

The game is very similar to its prequel, but there were also many changes made.

 In Dark Souls, the player's health bar does not become smaller whenever the player dies like in Demon's Souls. There are also no enemies that can lower the player's stat level.
 In Demon's Souls, the player must find health items throughout the game world, but they can carry as many of those items as they like. However, in Dark Souls, the player can only carry a limited amount of Estus Flasks at a time (the game's main health items), but they will be refilled whenever the player rests at Bonfires. Also, "Humanities", which are items that completely refill the player's health, are hard to find.
 In Dark Souls, the game world is more open than in Demon's Souls. Some of the areas that seem far away can later become connected to each other after the player finds shortcuts and keys. However, in Demon's Souls, while certain areas can be played out of order, many of the areas must be explored in a stricter order.
Dark Souls has important locations called Bonfires. If the player rests at a Bonfire, the player will refill their health bar and Estus Flasks, but most enemies will also come back to life. Also, when a player dies, they come back to the last bonfire they visited.
The player has "Humanity" and "Hollow" forms. If the player dies in their "Humanity" form, they will go into a "Hollow" form, a zombie-like version of the player. If the player becomes "Hollow", the player cannot get let other players join their own game, join other players' games, or attack other players. However, they also cannot be attacked by other players.  To get back their "Humanity" form, player must spend a "Humanity" point at Bonfires if they want to use any of the features listed above.

Dark Souls became successful and FromSoftware made two sequels and three spiritual successors, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. The game became so popular that other video game companies made high difficulty action RPG's similar to Dark Souls.
Video games
Role-playing video games
PlayStation 3 games
Xbox 360 games

Dark Souls


The chains, also called the chain-whales or channels, were small platforms, built on either side of the hull of a ship, used to provide a wide purchase for the shrouds, and to assist in the practice of depth sounding.

The chains provided a platform for a 'leadsman', the sailor assigned to swing the sounding line, or 'lead' into the water. The term originated from the practice of the sailor standing between the shrouds when casting the line, which were attached to the hull by chainplates, or, in earlier sailing ships, to lengths of chain along the ship's side. A length of chain was usually fixed at waist height to the stanchions above the chains, as an added safety measure. The chains were common on large sailing vessels, but the role of leadsman and swinging the lead to obtain depth soundings declined with developments in echo sounding, and ships are rarely now equipped with chains.

Notes

References

Sailing ship components
Nautical terminology

Chains (nautical)


Most Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinavamsa Maha Thera (1 April 1907 – 13 July 2003) (Pali: Siri Jinavaṃsa, sometimes spelled Jinawansa, Sinhala: අති පූජ්‍ය කඩවැද්දූවේ ශ්‍රී ජිනවංශ මහා ථේර) was a Sri Lankan (Sinhalese) Bhikkhu (Buddhist monk). He was the founder of Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha, a reform movement within the Sri Lankan Rāmañña Nikāya.

Early life
Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera was born Don Dinesh on 1 April 1907 in the Kadawedduwa village in Matara. He was the fourth and youngest child in the family. Don Dinesh had his primary education at the Yatiyana Vernacular School.

When Dinesh was 10 years old, he was invited to stay and attend upon Ven. Kadawedduwe Siri Sugunatissa Mahathera, the elder brother of Dinesh's father and the abbot of Srivardhanaramaya, a temple in Yatawara. There, Dinesh learnt Pali and Sanskrit from the Ven. Kothmale Siri Saddhammavamsa Mahathera. In 1921, at the age of 14, Don Dinesh received Pabbajja with the name Kadawedduwe Jinavamsa, with Ven. Sugunatissa Mahathera as his Upajjhaya. In 1927, at the age of 20, Ven. Jinavamsa received Upasampada, with Ven. Sri Ñāṇindasabha Mahathera as his preceptor.

Monastic career
In 1932, Ven. Jinavamsa founded the Granthakara Pirivena with 5 students. Later it was registered as a grant aided Pirivena under the Government on the recommendation of C. W. W. Kannangara. Ven. Jinavamsa obtained the monastic degree 'Rajakeeya Panditha' in 1945, and was awarded honorary membership of the Oriental Languages Society in 1946.

Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera left the Granthakara Pirivena and adopted a life of a forest monk in 1950. He was accompanied by Ven. Gatamanne Vimalavamsa Thera, one of his closest disciples. With the Ven. Matara Sri Nanarama Mahathera as the chief preceptor, Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera founded the Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha on 18 June 1951, and 12 lay aspirants were given the 'going forth' in the new organization on this date. The main Ramanna Nikaya gave permission to the Yogasrama Samstha to manage its own administration and conduct its own Upasampada.

During the early years of the Yogasrama Samstha, Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera travelled throughout the network of forest monasteries which numbered around 150. Later he settled down at the Gunawardena Yogasrama in Galduva, Ambalangoda, and made it the organization headquarters. Ven. Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera was his foremost student, and closely assisted him in his teaching and administrative duties.

On 11 July 2003, two days before he died, Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera called all his students in the monastery to his residence and gave a Dhamma talk, in which he mentioned that he would not last more than two days. On 13 July 2003, an Uposatha day, he died peacefully.

Awards
The Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya awarded Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera the titles of 'Śrī Āryavilāsa Vaṃsālaṇkāra Saddharmavāgīśvarācārya' and 'Mahopādhyāya'. The Sri Lanka Amarapura Maha Sangha Sabha awarded the honorary title of 'Paṭipatti Sobhana Gaṇapāmokkhācariya', appreciating his service to the Sasana. Ven. Jinavamsa Mahathera was invited to be the head of the Ramanna Nikaya when the post fell vacant, but he politely refused.

See also
 Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera
 Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha

References

1907 births
Buddhist monasticism
Monks
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks
Buddhist writers
2003 deaths
20th-century Buddhist monks

Kadawedduwe Jinavamsa Mahathera


Rhodes Brothers was a department store located in Tacoma, Washington, originally established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers would shift into the department store business, opening in the newly built Snell Building at Broadway and 11th Street in the heart of Tacoma's retail core. The store achieved great success, and by 1911, three floors were added to the building, eventually bringing it to 170,000 ft² (15793.52m²), including a tea room (opened in 1908) and a branch of the Tacoma Public Library. By 1920, even more room was needed and several buildings across the alley (Court C) were purchased and connected to the main store by a sky bridge. Further additions included a discount annex in 1935, a new men's shop in 1937 and a special vault that could hold 5,000 coats. In 1957, the company opened its first suburban location at the Villa Plaza Shopping Center in Lakewood, Washington. Rhodes also operated a department store in University Village in Seattle in the 1960s.  At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number of miles to the Rhodes store in Tacoma.

In the early 1950s, Rhodes was acquired by Western Department Stores, Inc., which also owned Kahn's of Oakland, California, and Olds & King of Portland. Western took on the Rhodes name, becoming Rhodes Western, and by 1960 all stores were brought under the Rhodes name. In 1969, Rhodes Western was acquired by Amfac which owned the Liberty House chain of department stores and took on that name. Liberty House opened a location in Tacoma Mall in 1973, where Rhodes Western had been considering opening a location before they were bought out. The downtown Tacoma Rhodes store was closed in December 1974, and the Lakewood and Tacoma Mall locations were sold to Frederick & Nelson in 1979. Threatened with demolition, the downtown Tacoma location was bought and renovated by the University of Puget Sound in 1978 for use as a law school. After the building was vacated by the University of Puget Sound in 1999, it was purchased by the State of Washington and was renovated further in 2001. Now known as the Rhodes Center, the building is mostly vacant today, housing rentable conference space, several state offices and a law firm.

Rhodes Seattle
Albert Rhodes left Rhodes Brothers in 1907 and moved to Seattle, where he established the Rhodes Department Store. By 1926, it anchored the corner of Second Avenue and Union Streets in the downtown retail core. The store, which by then had several suburban branches, was purchased in 1968 by the Pay 'n Save corporation, who promptly shuttered its downtown store and re-branded the rest under a newly created moniker: Lamonts. (See the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods web site, Seattle.gov, and its information on the Albert J. Rhodes mansion, designed by Ambrose J. Russell and Frederick Heath (architect).)

References

External links
PDXhistory.com: Olds Wortman & King

Defunct department stores based in Washington State
Defunct companies based in Tacoma, Washington
Lakewood, Washington
American companies established in 1892
Retail companies established in 1892
Retail companies disestablished in 1980
American companies disestablished in 1980

Rhodes Brothers


Stokely Webster (1912–2001) was best known as an American impressionist painter who studied in Paris. His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the White House, Gracie Mansion in New York, the Senate Office Building, and the Museum of the City of New York.

Youth
Stokely Webster was born in Evanston, Illinois. His parents were the noted author Henry Kitchell Webster and Mary Ward Orth. As a child, he spent his summers at Bee Tree Farm, the family retreat built by his grandfather, industrialist Towner K. Webster. He credited his time at that "magical place" with shaping his world view and future painting. One of his earliest works, "Willows and Sky," was painted at the Farm when he was 17 years old.

As a youth, he traveled with his family to Paris, France where he was enthralled by the paintings of the French impressionists and post-impressionists and embarked on his own fledgling efforts at plein-air cityscapes. In 1922 he spent a year in France where he saw Monet at work in his Giverny garden and viewed his paintings at the Luxembourg Palace. He decided at that time to be a painter.  His first studies were with family friend Lawton S. Parker, an American artist who had studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme and James McNeill Whistler. He taught young Webster the century-old traditions of painting, generally accepted up until World War II.

After returning to America in 1924, he dedicated the next ten years to educating himself through a succession of art-school courses, studying architecture at Yale University and spending two years in Chicago, Illinois working as a textile designer.

Webster was a student at Columbia University, National Academy of Design, and the Yale School of Fine Arts.

Maturity
In 1933, he married renowned ballerina and satirical dancer Iva Kitchell.

In 1936 he studied for six months with Robert Henri's disciple Wayman Adams, learning  portrait painting and landscape technique, which combined the high-valued colors of impressionism with the methods of Henri and John Singer Sargent. A one-man exhibition, which opened in New York the same year he completed the painting, Times Square, drew praise from The New York Sun, "Mr. Webster paints in the way that at one time was thought the only way to paint, using the flowing strokes and well-thinned-out pigments that came to us through Sargent via Frans Hals and Velasquez."  A reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune endorsed that opinion, comparing Webster's technical skills to those of Sargent, while others praised his expertise at capturing the momentary impression of a place and his exceptionally convincing and precise use of light as the force defining its mood, climate, and urban disposition.
Webster's joy at this reception, which buttressed his ambition to focus on painting full-time, was savored only briefly. The outbreak of World War II had soon shifted him to the assembly line at Grumman Aircraft Corporation, leading to his pursuit of an engineering degree at Columbia University and seven years of steady employment designing airplanes.

He returned to painting in 1948, having sublet a spacious studio, formerly owned by George Luks, in Manhattan. A fire ravaged this building four years later, however, destroying more than sixty of his canvases and cheating Webster of his successful re-entry into the city's art world. The incident prompted him to relocate to Huntington, Long Island, where he became involved as a designer, and then president, of a gyroscope manufacturing company. Webster's creative inclinations eventually lured him back into active painting, and the decades of the 1960s and 1970s saw him creating both landscapes and figural studies and exhibiting that work internationally in an array of salons and galleries. During this time, Webster's paintings were acquired by, or donated to, museums in the United States.

During the 1960s, he painted many portraits of his wife, Iva, as well as his daughter, Stephanie (dancer, who later married novelist Martin Brooks), and his granddaughter, Kathryn (novelist and photographer K. S. Brooks).

In 1983, Webster and his wife took up residence in Flagler Beach, Florida after many years as Long Island, New York residents. Mrs. Webster died later that year. He remarried in May 1984 to long-time friend Audrey Coutant and relocated to Southport, Connecticut.
His commitment to painting lyrical seascapes and city scenes in an impressionist manner continued unabated, and museum exhibitions featuring recent work by the artist were still being organized into the mid-1990s.

Webster traveled to Boston in May 1993 to attend the National Invitational exhibit State of the Art '93, sponsored by the New England Fine Arts Institute, as both he, and his granddaughter, K.S. Brooks, were exhibiting works at the same show.

Two books were published about Stokely Webster during his life: Stokely Webster Paintings, 1923-1984, published in 1985 by the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida; and Stokely Webster and his Paris…New York, London and Venice published in 2001 by Connecticut River Press.

Webster died in 2001, in Southport, Connecticut.

References

External links

 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Stokely Webster
 New York Times review of One Man Show

1912 births
2001 deaths
American Impressionist painters
20th-century American painters
American male painters
People from Southport, Connecticut
Artists from Evanston, Illinois
20th-century American male artists

Stokely Webster


The Yamaha TZR250 is motorcycle manufactured an produced bi the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha atween 1986 an 1996.

Yamaha produced road goin 2-stroke motorcycle, loosely based on the TZ250 Yamaha racin bike. Parallel-twin, reverse cylinder an finally V-twin variants wur produced. It evolved as a natural replacement for the popular RD 250/350 LC series o the 1980's. It haes Yamaha Power Valve System (YPVS) which raises an lawers the exhaust port dependin on the rpm o the ingine, the YPVS servo starts tae open at aboot 6,000rpm. In staundart form 50 bhp is claimed at 10,000rpm. Although mid 40's is mair realistic, an will no rev much abuin 9,500rpm in staundart trim awin tae the restrictive staundart exhausts an ignition boxes.

Racin
Still raced in the Yamaha Past Masters race series wi the Breetish racin club - BMCRC. Racin ingines currently claiming circa 56 bhp @ 11,000rpm. Racin pre-mix fuel ratios typically 1:30. Staundart exhausts are difficult tae improve on in terms o pouer an torque but they are vera hivy an impede grund clearance. Jolly Moto exhausts are popular replacements as they are licht an produce similar performance, an allou better grund clearance.

Matt Oxley wis the first body tae lap the Isle o Man TT course at ower 100 mph on this bike in 1987. An F3 racin kit wis produced for a few years which includit ignition boxes, carbs an exhaust pipes, helpin increase maximum revs, pouer an torque.

History
Production stairtit in Juin 1986. At a cost o aroond $6,000 new on release it wis seen as an expensive bike for a 250 cc, but gien that places such as Japan an Australie haed 250 licencin laws in place ane can imagine the stir that somethin that coud hassle 750's on a track caused. 2MA variant being the UK variant an the 1KT model being the domestic Japanese variant. Variations atween these twa models being minimal, i.e. wirdin on the brake maister cylinder in Inglis or Japanese. Lichtin arrangements wur also different, tae comply wi UK type approval regulations, particularly the indicators wur mountit on stalks rather than faired intae the bodywirk.

Then came the reverse cylinder version 3MA, then the V-twins 3XV. The variants follaed the configuration o the racin TZ250 o the time. Production o aw TZR250s stopped in 1996.

Freemit airtins
 Magazine Review o the 1987 Yamaha TZR250 released in Canadae (Hosted by Chinoy of RD Dreams )

TZR250

Yamaha TZR250


In graph theory, a bramble for an undirected graph  is a family of connected subgraphs of  that all touch each other: for every pair of disjoint subgraphs, there must exist an edge in  that has one endpoint in each subgraph. The order of a bramble is the smallest size of a hitting set, a set of vertices of  that has a nonempty intersection with each of the subgraphs. Brambles may be used to characterize the treewidth of .

Treewidth and havens
A haven of order k in a graph G is a function β that maps each set X of fewer than k vertices to a connected component of G − X, in such a way that every two subsets β(X) and β(Y) touch each other. Thus, the set of images of β forms a bramble in G, with order k. Conversely, every bramble may be used to determine a haven: for each set X of size smaller than the order of the bramble, there is a unique connected component β(X) that contains all of the subgraphs in the bramble that are disjoint from X.

As Seymour and Thomas showed, the order of a bramble (or equivalently, of a haven) characterizes treewidth: a graph has a bramble of order k if and only if it has treewidth at least .

Size of brambles
Expander graphs of bounded degree have treewidth proportional to their number of vertices, and therefore also have brambles of linear order. However, as Martin Grohe and Dániel Marx showed, for these graphs, a bramble of such a high order must include exponentially many sets. More strongly, for these graphs, even brambles whose order is slightly larger than the square root of the treewidth must have exponential size. However, Grohe and Marx also showed that every graph of treewidth k has a bramble of polynomial size and of order .

Computational complexity
Because brambles may have exponential size, it is not always possible to construct them in polynomial time for graphs of unbounded treewidth. However, when the treewidth is bounded, a polynomial time construction is possible: it is possible to find a bramble of order k, when one exists, in time O(nk + 2) where n is the number of vertices in the given graph. Even faster algorithms are possible for graphs with few minimal separators.

Bodlaender, Grigoriev, and Koster studied heuristics for finding brambles of high order. Their methods do not always generate brambles of order close to the treewidth of the input graph, but for planar graphs they give a constant approximation ratio. Kreutzer and Tazari provide randomized algorithms that, on graphs of treewidth k, find brambles of polynomial size and of order  within polynomial time, coming within a logarithmic factor of the order shown by  to exist for polynomial size brambles.

Directed brambles
The concept of bramble has also been defined for directed graphs. In a directed graph D, a bramble is a collection of strongly connected subgraphs of D that all touch each other: for every pair of disjoint elements X, Y of the bramble, there must exist an arc in D from X to Y and one from Y to X. The order of a bramble is the smallest size of a hitting set, a set of vertices of D that has a nonempty intersection with each of the elements of the bramble. The bramble number of D is the maximum order of a bramble in D.
The bramble number of a directed graph is within a constant factor of its directed treewidth.

References

Graph theory objects
Graph minor theory

Bramble (graph theory)


Secret was a chocolate bar that was manufactured by Rowntree Mackintosh during the 1980s and the 1990s that was popular in the UK. It consisted of a bird's nest-styled chocolate coating with a creamy mousse centre similar to the filling of a Walnut Whip. It was packaged in a gold-coloured wrapper with the product's name printed on it in purple and white.

A television advert for the product, first shown in 1990, and set in a 1940s mystery film style featured an elegant lady riding a train when a man rushes into her cabin and hands her a Secret bar saying, "guard this with your life". He then runs off to divert the two mysterious men who've been following him, but while he's away, the woman eats the secret bar because she couldn't resist such a delicious temptation. When the man returns to retrieve it, it's gone, because she had eaten it. At the end of the advert the words accompanied by a voice-over says, "You can't trust anyone to keep a Secret". The product was discontinued a couple of years later, due to high production costs and low volume of sales.

In more recent years there have been a number of petitions, on websites such as Facebook, asking Nestlé to relaunch the Secret bar. This has not happened as yet, but similar petitions held for the Cadbury's Wispa chocolate bar, which was discontinued in 2003, eventually led to its relaunch on October 8, 2007.

References

Chocolate bars
Nestlé brands

Secret (chocolate bar)


William Raymond Prom (November 17, 1948 – February 9, 1969) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in February 1969 during the Vietnam War.

Biography
William Raymond Prom was born on November 17, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Mt. Troy Public School in Pittsburgh and Millvale High School in Millvale, Pennsylvania.

Prom enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve at Pittsburgh on December 8, 1967, and was discharged to enlist in the Regular Marine Corps on December 27, 1967.

Upon completion of recruit training with the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, he was promoted to private first class on March 1, 1968. Transferred to the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, he underwent individual combat training with the 2nd Infantry Training Regiment, and weapons special training with the 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Training Regiment, completing the latter in April 1968.

In June 1968, he arrived in the Republic of Vietnam, where he served consecutively as ammunition man, assistant gunner, machine gun team leader, and machine gun squad leader, with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on September 1, 1968. While participating in Operation Taylor Common during a reconnaissance in force operation southwest of An Hoa Combat Base on February 9, 1969, he was killed in action.

William R. Prom is buried in Allegheny County Memorial Park in Allison Park, Pennsylvania.

Decorations

A complete list of his medals and decorations include: the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

Medal of Honor citation
The President of the United States in the name of Congress takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to

for service as set forth in the following CITATION:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a Machine Gun Squad Leader with Company I, Third Battalion, Third Marines, Third Marine Division in action against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. While returning from a reconnaissance operation on 9 February 1969 during Operation TAYLOR COMMON, two platoons of Company I came under an intense automatic weapons fire and grenade attack from a well-concealed North Vietnamese Army force in fortified positions. The leading element of the platoon was isolated and several Marines were wounded. Lance Corporal Prom immediately assumed control of one of the machine guns and began to deliver return fire. Disregarding his own safety he advanced to a position from which he could more effectively deliver covering fire while first aid was administered to the wounded men. Realizing that the enemy would have to be destroyed before the injured Marines could be evacuated, Lance Corporal Prom again moved and delivered a heavy volume of fire with such accuracy that he was instrumental in routing the enemy, thus permitting his men to regroup and resume the march. Shortly thereafter, the platoon again came under heavy fire in which one man was critically wounded. Reacting instantly Lance Corporal Prom moved forward to protect his injured comrade. Unable to continue his own fire because of his severe wounds, he continued to advance to within a few yards of the enemy positions. There, standing in full view of the enemy, he accurately directed the fire of his support elements until he was mortally wounded. Inspired by his heroic actions, the Marines launched an assault that destroyed the enemy. Lance Corporal Prom's indomitable courage inspiring initiative and selfless devotion to duty upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
/S/ RICHARD M. NIXON

In memory
The name William R. Prom is inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("The Wall") on  Panel 32W   Row 002.

The 31st Street Bridge over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, PA, is the William Randolph Prom Memorial Bridge.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients

References
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1948 births
1969 deaths
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients
Military personnel from Pittsburgh
United States Marines
Vietnam War recipients of the Medal of Honor
United States Marine Corps personnel killed in the Vietnam War

William R. Prom