Boaz Huss (born 1959) is a professor of Kabbalah at the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a leading scholar in contemporary Kabbalah.

Early life and education
Boaz Huss was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and History of Jewish Thought in 1986 and a Ph.D. in History of Jewish Thought in 1993. His doctoral thesis, Ketem Paz – The Kabbalistic Doctrine of Rabbi Simeon Lavi in His Commentary to the Zohar, was supervised by Professor Moshe Idel.

He was a Fulbright post-doctoral fellow at Yale University (1993/4), a Starr fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University (2002), and a fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998/9, 2008/9). He lectured at Hebrew University (1994–1996) and Tel Aviv University (1995–1996) before coming to the Goldstein-Goren department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University; he has chaired the department in  2010-2012. He has received several research grants, including two 4-year grants from the Israel Science Foundation on the subjects of "Major Trends in 20th Century Kabbalah" (2005) and "Kabbalah and the Theosophical Society (1875-1936)".

Huss is a board member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, and has served on the editorial boards of the Zohar Education Project in Chicago and the International Journal for the Study of New Religions.

Scholarship
Huss' research interests cover the Zohar and its reception, modern and contemporary Kabbalah, Western esotericism, and the New Age. His first monograph was dedicated to the Kabbalah of Rabbi Shimon Lavi, one of the first commentators of the Zohar. In his second monograph he examined the reception of the Zohar and the construction of its symbolic value. Huss was one of the first scholars to "take seriously more contemporary expressions of Jewish mysticism that have been largely ignored by scholars".

He has written about the communist Kabbalah of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, about Kabbalistic motifs used by Madonna, and about the New Age and postmodern characteristic of contemporary Kabbalah. Huss also studied the history of Kabbalah research, and criticized the use of the term "mysticism" as the defining category of Kabbalah and Hasidism, and the theological framework of the academic study of Jewish mysticism. He is widely quoted in contemporary Kabbalah literature.

In 2006 he appeared as himself in the TV movie "Decoding the Past: Secrets of Kabbalah", together with other Kabbalah scholars such as Michael Berg, Pinchas Giller, Moshe Idel, Daniel C. Matt, Ronit Meroz, and Byron Sherwin.

Selected bibliography

 (ed. with Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad)

References

External links
 homepage
 Boaz Huss at Academia.edu
 Boaz Huss at ESSWE
 "Academia looks seriously at Kabbalah" The Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2008

1959 births
Living people
People from Jerusalem
Kabbalah
Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Harvard University people
Western esotericism scholars

Boaz Huss


Love Bites (also known as Love Bites: The Reluctant Vampire) is a 1993 comedy film starring 1980s pop star Adam Ant, Kimberly Foster, Roger Rose and Michelle Forbes. The film was directed by Malcolm Marmorstein, who also wrote the screenplay.

Plot

Dwight Putnum (Roger Rose) has just asked Kendall Gordon (Kimberly Foster) for the 10th time to marry him, but Kendall is still unwilling to commit. She has this idea that the perfect man for her is still out there. Vampire Zachary Simms (Adam Ant) has just awakened in his coffin from a 100-year sleep in the crypt under Kendall's house and comes out through the secret door in her fireplace to face the brave, new world. When the two meet, it isn't quite love at first bite, but Zachary spends the next day in her bed anyway. This angers Dwight when he tries to put the make on Zachary, thinking the lump under the covers is Kendall.

It doesn't take long before Kendall and Zachary become friends, and Zachary tells her how he came to be a vampire. He was born in England in 1660 and moved to Boston in 1675. In 1688, he was bitten by a vampire named Nerissa, and they lived together for 100 years before she suddenly decided to run off with a Washington politician. Zachary pined for Nerissa for the next one hundred years and finally decided to sleep it off. Unfortunately, he forgot to wake up until another one hundred years had passed.

Zachary is entranced by such devices as refrigerators, electric light bulbs, and cars that talk. Zachary is also entranced by Kendall, and before long, they are a twosome. Zachary decides to end his existence as a vampire and asks Kendall to help him in 'reviving his digestive system' so that he can eat human food. Before long, Zachary is slurping down spaghetti and munching on pizza. When he finds that he has a blood pressure, can go outside in the daytime, and drinking blood makes him gag, he proclaims himself 'rehumanized.' Everything is going great, until 1) Zachary lands a job with Dwight's insurance firm, 2) Dwight hires Vinnie Helsting (Philip Bruns) to do a little detective work on Zachary, and 3) Nerissa (Michelle Forbes) shows up wanting Zachary back.

Zachary starts working the night shift in the data entry department. One night he discovers $1,300,000 that has been moving from department to department in small increments. Dwight rewards him for his find by making him an executive vice president and giving him a company car. Within a short time, Zachary is using his bloodthirsty skills to put the bite on potential clients, proving that he can make a killing in the business. Unfortunately, he's spending less and less time with Kendall and becoming more and more of a yuppie. When Zachary suggests to the board of directors a plan that will increase their profits 30% each year for 100 years, they make him chief executive officer of the company, which effectively puts Dwight out of a job.

While Zachary is rapidly moving up the ladder, Helsting can't find anything on him. No birth certificate, no credit cards, no paper trail, so he begins tailing Zachary wherever he goes, taking photographs, and casing the house Zachary shares with Kendall. One night, when no one is home, Helsting enters the house, notices the secret door in the fireplace, and discovers the crypt and Zachary's coffin. While there, he overhears Zachary's message machine taking a phone call. 'Hello. I can't come to the phone right now. I'm dead.' Then Nerissa comes on, warning Zachary to be careful so that Dwight doesn't find out what Zachary really is. Helsting puts two and two together and figures it out...Zachary is a vampire.

It looks like Zachary is about to be defanged. Dwight wants his business back. Kendall says Zachary was more human when he was a vampire and wants him out of her life. Nerissa says that the only solution is to 'revamp' him, so she gets the process started by biting him on the neck. Dwight takes back his business, setting up Zachary as a consultant with a perpetual income that will make him rich for centuries. Kendall informs Zachary that she is pregnant with his baby and agrees to allow him to 'vampirize' her when the baby is old enough to understand. Nerissa agrees to become the baby's godmother and buy her pretty dresses and take her to Mets night games.

Cast
 Adam Ant as Zachary Simms
 Kimberly Foster as Kendall Gordon
 Roger Rose as Dwight Putnam
 Michelle Forbes as Nerissa
 Philip Bruns as Vinnie Helsting
 Judy Tenuta as Sgt. Farfalloni
 Jacqueline Schultz as Paula
 Julie Strain as Female Jogger

See also
Vampire film

References

External links

1993 films
1993 comedy films
American vampire films
Films directed by Malcolm Marmorstein
Films with screenplays by Malcolm Marmorstein
1990s English-language films
1990s American films

Love Bites (film)


Rick Goodman is a video game designer and the founder and owner of the now-defunct Stainless Steel Studios. He is best known for the RTS games he designed, such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.

Career
In 1995 Goodman co-founded Ensemble Studios together with his brother, Tony Goodman, and John Boog-Scott. Their first project was Age of Empires (AoE), in which Goodman worked as Lead Designer. After the game's release, it became an overnight sensation and Goodman became one of the most recognized game developers in the world. Because of the success of the game, some said that Goodman had invented in AoE "the most well recognized game interface for RTS games", because afterward many games like it began to use the AoE game interface: a mini map, unit and building controls, the name of your civilization and the age which you are currently in on top of the screen and others.

After Age of Empires, Goodman left Ensemble to form his own studio with Dara-Lynn Pelechatz: Stainless Steel Studios in 1998. Pelechatz told GameSpy that Goodman couldn't decide what name to give for his studio, so he opened a catalog with the plan to baptise the studio with the very first thing he encountered.

In 2001, Stainless Steel, under Goodman, created Empire Earth. The game, which was published by Sierra Entertainment, offered many new features, including a 3D view of the world, impressive zoom-in and zoom-out features, and a timeline that spanned from pre-history to the twenty-second century (over 500,000 years). The game won the GameSpy PC "Game-of-the-Year 2001" Award. According to some, Empire Earth was what Goodman wanted Age of Empires to be. PC Gamer said in an article about Empire Earth that it feels like it's the gold edition of the entire AoE-series (which is all the AoE games, including the unreal games such as an AoE IV and V).

Goodman would soon break up with Sierra and start working on a new game Empires: Dawn of the Modern World. The game is very similar to Goodman's previous successes, except the game spans only a millennium of entire history of humanity, from 950 to 1950, which is said to be the most pivotal years in human history. The game was released in 2003 and published by Activision. Ironically, although it wasn't much of a hit, the game was rated, in some reviews and websites, higher than Empire Earth.

After Empires, Goodman licensed the Empire Earth game engine to Tilted Mill Entertainment for its development of Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile which was published by Myelin Media in US and SEGA in Europe. It was first released in November 2004.

Goodman's last game was real time strategy game Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War published and partially developed by Midway Games and was released on July 12, 2006.

Goodman is currently a board member of 8D World, which built a virtual world where Chinese children learn English.

Goodman currently works at PeopleFun as an executive producer with his brother Tony.

Stainless Steel Studios
At the end of November 2005, with only weeks to go before release of "Rise and Fall", Stainless Steel Studios closed abruptly. He reportedly told Gamestar that after the PC strategy game's release was pushed from October to early 2006, Midway cut off advances to Stainless Steel, which in turn had to lay off its staff due to lack of funding. Midway had stated in a report that it would continue to work on the game and did eventually release it in June 2006.

Portfolio
Rick Goodman has taken part in developing many games:

References

Living people
American video game designers
Ensemble Studios people
1955 births

Rick Goodman


The Sérénade mélancolique in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 26 (Russian: Меланхолическая серенада), was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in February 1875.  It was his first work for violin and orchestra, and was written immediately after completing the Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor.

Background
The Hungarian violinist Leopold Auer had been professor of violin at the Imperial Conservatory in St Petersburg since 1868.  Tchaikovsky was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory from 1866, and would have known Auer at least by reputation. He had certainly seen him perform in public, having noted "the great expressivity, the thoughtful finesse and poetry of the interpretation" in an 1874 review of Auer's playing. They met no later than January 1875, when both attended a reception at the home of Nikolai Rubinstein.  Tchaikovsky apparently resolved to write a piece for the violinist (one source says Auer commissioned it), and the Sérénade mélancolique was the result.  It was completed quickly by the following month.  The first we know of the work was in Tchaikovsky's letter to his brother Modest of 13/25 February, where he wrote: "I have finished my Piano Concerto, and have already written a violin piece I have promised to Auer".

The piece was dedicated to Auer on its publication by P. Jurgenson in February 1876, but Auer did not premiere it.  It was first performed by Adolph Brodsky on 16/28 January 1876, at the seventh symphony concert of the Russian Musical Society in Moscow.  Auer seems to have been the first to play it in Saint Petersburg, on 6/18 November 1876.

Two years later, Tchaikovsky was offended by Auer's criticisms of, and refusal to perform, the Violin Concerto in D major written for him, and he withdrew that dedication.  The Concerto was premiered by the same Brodsky who had premiered the Sérénade mélancolique.  At that time, Tchaikovsky chose also to withdraw the dedication to Auer of the Sérénade, although it was impossible to remove his name from the edition then being printed by Jurgenson.

Key
An examination of the score of the Sérénade mélancolique shows it is clearly written in the key of B-flat minor, although a number of sources describe it as being in B minor,  This confusion may have come about because the note the English-speaking world calls B-flat is known in German musical nomenclature as B, while our note B (natural) is known in Germany as H.

Influences
The music was influenced by compositions Tchaikovsky had been working on.  Its first sounds are taken from Oxana's challenge to Vakula in Act II, Scene 2 of Vakula the Smith/Cherevichki.  A melody in the central section mirrors the French melody in the slow movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1, which was also written in B-flat minor, and had been completed less than two months earlier.

Instrumentation
The piece is originally orchestrated for solo violin, pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets in B-flat and bassoons, four horns in F and the usual strings.
Furthermore, there are various arrangements for violin and piano, including the composer's own arrangement.

Recordings
The Sérénade mélancolique has been recorded many times.

References

External links
 Tchaikovsky Research: Sérénade mélancolique
 Tchaikovsky Research: Leopold Auer
 Pyotr.Tchaikovsky.com
 Classical Archives

Compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Compositions for violin and orchestra
Tchaikovsky
1875 compositions
Compositions in B-flat minor
Music with dedications

Sérénade mélancolique


Tachycardia is the fast beating of the heart. In adults, it refers to heart rates higher than 100 beats per minute. Tachycardia may be a normal physiological response to stress, but depending on the cause and how healthy the patient is, tachycardia could be harmful and need medical treatment. In some cases, tachycardia can cause death.

Tachycardia can be harmful in two ways. First, when the heart beats too rapidly, it may perform inefficiently. Second, the faster the heart beats, the more oxygen and nutrients the heart requires. This can be especially problematic for patients suffering from ischaemic heart disease.

Medical emergencies
Cardiovascular system

Tachycardia


The University of Louisville Cardinal Marching Band is the official marching band of the University of Louisville (UofL) in Louisville, Kentucky. It is considered a Music Ambassador for UofL. The CMB performs at all home football games at Cardinal Stadium, all postseason bowl games, and select away football games. It also plays at the annual Spring Scrimmage Game which pits the Cardinal Offense against the Cardinal Defense.

The CMB is composed of students at the University of Louisville and surrounding Kentuckiana Metroversity institutions. Every member of the CMB receives a scholarship to perform with the ensemble. There are additional awards for the official CMB Bugler and Feature Twirler. The Cardinal Marching Band is a Major Ensemble course at the UofL School of Music. The Cardinal Marching Band is also the Official Band of the Kentucky Derby, held on the first Saturday in May each year.

Overview

During the university's Fall semester, the band rehearses from 4:30pm to 6:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Membership includes the brass and woodwinds, drumline, the feature twirler, colorguard, and drum majors. It is composed of students at the university (music majors and non-music majors alike) as well as select students of other Metroversity colleges that don't have a marching band program of their own. Members receive both a college credit and a scholarship for participation. The band has performed on MTV and has had musical greats join them in performance such as world-renowned trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis. The group was chosen to perform for the Captain's Celebration of the 2008 Ryder Cup at the Valhalla Golf Club. The group has also been featured and/or written about on ESPN, FOX Sports, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson, Inside Edition, and ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

History

For over 80 years the Cardinal Marching Band has proudly represented the University of Louisville as the most visible ensemble of the School of Music, performing live for over half a million spectators each year. Creating vibrant game day traditions for Cardinal fans is at the core of the CMB, which performs at all home football games, select away games, and all bowl games.

The Cardinal Marching Band has been the "Official Band of the Kentucky Derby" since 1936 and has received national recognition through features on ESPN, ABC World News Tonight, Oprah, Sports Illustrated, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and the NFL Network. Additionally, the CMB has performed at 17 bowl games including the Russell Athletic, Sugar, Orange, Liberty, Belk, Beef O'Bradys, Gator, GMAC, Humanitarian, Motor City, Fiesta, Pasadena, and Sun Bowl.

The Cardinal Marching Band was formed in 1928 under the direction of E. J. Wotowa (composer "Hail Purdue!") and started performing at football games in 1933. In 1949, the band traveled to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to perform at the UofL vs. Southern Mississippi football game. It was at this game that the band had to abandon the claim of "Best Dressed Band in Dixie," after it was discovered another band held prior claim to that title. The UofL CMB then adopted the nickname "Marching Cardinals" which was shortened in 2011 to "Marching Cards."

Through the 1950s the CMB was extremely active, dazzling audiences with electrifying halftime shows featuring majorette Hilda Gay Mayberry who was named the most outstanding majorette in the country during the time! The 1960s marked the leadership of Robert B. Griffith, who wrote the fight song, Fight! UofL.

The band's membership gradually declined in the 1960s until their last performance in the fall of 1970. In 1978 Governor Julian Carroll offered to reestablish the Cardinal Marching Band. Since then, the band has grown to be an established part of UofL's school culture. The band has performed at every UofL Football game since 1979 and has been a vital part of the University of Louisville.

In 2023, Dr. Jason Cumberledge was appointed as Director of Athletic Bands & Cardinal Marching Band Director. In that same year, Mr. Brad Rogers was named Assistant Director of Athletic Bands. These terms were preceded by Dr. Amy Acklin's 12-year tenure as director of the band. Dr. Frederick Speck, Director of Bands, has overseen and provided vision for the program since 1995. Dr. Speck also wrote the arrangement of At the Post which the band plays during the pre-game show.

Every member of the CMB receives a scholarship to perform with the ensemble. There are additional scholarships for the official CMB Bugler and Feature Twirler.

Instruments and sections
 Drum Majors
 Twirlers
 Colorguard
 Flutes / Piccolos
 Clarinets
 Alto and Tenor Saxophones
 Trumpets
 Mellophones
 Trombones
 Baritones
 Sousaphones
 Drumline (Includes Snare line, Tenor line, Bass line, and Cymbal line)

Traditions

 The chanting and playing of the "CARDS" cheer to end every rehearsal. (refer to Track 12 of the band's 2007 Highlights CD, listed below)
 The playing of "Cardinal Circle," written by head director of bands, Dr. Fredrick Speck at the beginning of every Monday rehearsal.
 The President's Tent -- About 45 minutes before a home football game, the band marches to the school president's tent (located just outside the stadium) where many important guests to the school congregate before each game. While there, the band plays few school songs for the enjoyment of those in attendance.
 Call to the Post -- During each pregame show, a solo trumpeter plays Call to the Post into a microphone to be heard throughout the stadium. This is a reference to the city of Louisville's long history with horse racing as the Call to the Post tune is customarily played by a bugler just minutes before a horse race. There is usually a second playing of this, occurring just before the start of the second half of the football game by the same trumpeter that played it during pregame.
 Card March - About 2 hours before every home game, the drumline leads the football team to the stadium gates where the band and colorguard await ready to play a string of school songs.
 The annual Cardinal Marching Band Banquet near the end of the football season in order to celebrate the journey from band camp to the end of the regular season. The banquet includes recognition of all Senior members who are presented a gift, and a slideshow of the year's performances.

Performances

Kentucky Derby Festival

Pegasus Parade
During the Kentucky Derby Festival, the band has two events that it participates in annually. The first of which is the Pegasus Parade, held in downtown Louisville two days before the Kentucky Derby. It is one of the largest parades in the United States. The band marches the parade among all the other floats and attractions while playing fight songs, both representing the University of Louisville and the city of Louisville itself.

Kentucky Derby

The second of these events is the Kentucky Derby itself at historic Churchill Downs. The band routinely plays in between the various races held on Derby day, usually alternating play times with a military band. Its greatest honor every year takes place minutes before the big race—the playing of the Stephen Foster classic "My Old Kentucky Home" near the Derby Winner's Circle for all those in attendance and for those that watch on television. The band first played the song at the Derby in 1936, by which time it was established as the music played while the horses are led to the post parade. It has kept this engagement for all but a few years since then. In 2002, famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis joined the band for this honor. In 1998, Dr. Frederick A. Speck (the UofL director of bands and a composer in his own right) wrote an arrangement of My Old Kentucky Home that the marching band has since played for this and many other occasions.

The Louisville Orchestra
In the past, the UofL Marching Band carried a relationship with the Louisville Orchestra. The first concert of the Orchestra's season was called Fanfara—held at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in September every year. The marching band was featured as the opening act, usually entering and exiting to a drum cadence but stopping to play The Star-Spangled Banner while on stage. The playing of the American national anthem appropriately kicked off the Orchestra's season of wonderful live music.

KMEA State Marching Championships
Since 2007, when the competition returned to Louisville after a long drought without it, band members have assisted the Kentucky Music Educators Association (KMEA) in hosting the semi-finals and finals of Kentucky State Marching Band Championships at Cardinal Stadium. Band members take on various jobs for the day, from being a band guide to being a press box assistant and more. At the end of the competition, the UofL Drumline (ULD) plays a series of cadences as all of the finalist bands reenter the stadium for the trophy ceremony.

Patrick Henry Hughes

In 2006, trumpeter Patrick Henry Hughes joined the Cardinal Marching Band. Patrick was a young man who had been born without eyes and, furthermore, was reliant on a wheelchair, unable to walk. Patrick would play trumpet while his father (Patrick John Hughes) pushed him in his wheelchair through the marching drills. This visible commitment attracted increasing crowd and media attention throughout the fall football season, and the pair of Patricks were featured in a variety of television and newspaper coverage.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
In November 2007, at the suggestion of a member of the CMB, ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to Louisville to remake Hughes' family home. As part of a community project that the show routinely does at the suggestion of the recipient of the home makeover, the band's practice field was given a makeover. The show filmed at two CMB rehearsals—one rehearsal on the old field and one rehearsal at the unveiling of the new field. New lights and a new sound system were installed for better practice conditions. Other additions to the new field include a new shed for the storage of both instruments and equipment, a roofed sitting area to escape the sun's heat, and water fountains to hydrate the band members. The new field is fenced off and has a tall gate that displays the name of the field: "Patrick Henry Hughes Field".

Music

CDs

The marching band has released three CD recordings.

In 1991, the UofL Cardinal Marching Band was among the first marching bands to release a recording on CD. Recorded at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in November 1990, the CMB performed charts and percussion features from the landmark 1990–91 football season that culminated with Coach Howard Schnellenberger leading the Cardinals to an historic victory over Alabama in the 1991 Sunkist Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.

The second was 2007 Highlights. The CD was engineered and recorded by Christopher Jones and Tim Haertel. It was produced by TNT Productions, Inc.

The third recording was released in 2022, titled "At the Post." It was engineered and produced by Dr. John Parks of Tallahassee, FL.

See also
 UofL Cardinal Bird Mascot
 The University of Louisville Collegiate Chorale
 The University of Louisville Cardinal Singers

References

External links

Atlantic Coast Conference marching bands
Marching Band
Musical groups established in 1928
Musical groups from Louisville, Kentucky
1928 establishments in Kentucky


Rodrigo F. Cádiz (born 1972) is a composer and engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he studied with Alejandro Guarello, Aliosha Solovera and Pablo Aranda. He obtained his Ph.D. in Music Technology from Northwestern University in 2006, where he studied with Augusta Read Thomas, Jay Alan Yim, Virgil Moorefield, Amnon Wolman and Gary Kendall.

His music includes works for all genres and it has been programmed in Chile, USA, and Europe, in venues such as Festival de Música Chilena Contemporánea, June in Buffalo, ICMC, Bourges, SEAMUS and Música Viva.

His research articles have been published in journals such as the Computer Music Journal and several international conferences. He has taught several courses in computer music. His research interests include digital audio processing, computer music, composition, music perception and cognition and the musical applications of fuzzy logic.

Cádiz is currently an associate researcher at the Music Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, School of Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He is a member of AMC, SEAMUS, ICMA and he is the current general coordinator of the Electroacoustic Community of Chile (CECH).

Awards
Cádiz has won several grants and prizes for artistic creation and research, among them Beca Presidente de la República del Gobierno de Chile, Fondo de la Música Nacional, Fundación Andes and Studio22, CIRA, Wonderlic y Wyatt from Northwestern University. He has won several composition prizes in Chile and the US.

Publications
Cadiz, Rodrigo and Kendall, Gary (2005): A Particle-based Fuzzy Logic Approach to Sound Synthesis Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIMO5), Montreal
Cadiz, Rodrigo (2006): 'A Fuzzy-Logic Mapper for Audiovisual Media' in Computer Music Journal Volume 30,  Issue 1  (March 2006) pp 67 – 82
Cadiz, Rodrigo (2009): Computer Music Control by Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications VDM Verlag

References
'Das Schlagquartett Köln' page on Cadiz and his Erupciones für 4 Perkussionisten (2003), accessed 9 February 2010

External links

Electroacustica en Chile biographical page, accessed 9 February 2010

21st-century classical composers
Male classical composers
1972 births
Living people
21st-century male musicians

Rodrigo Cadiz


John Ramsay, 1st Lord Bothwell ( – 9 September 1513), also known as Sir John Ramsay of Trarinzeane, was a Scottish peer and courtier.

He was the son of John Ramsay of Corstoun in Fife (kin to the Ramsays of Carnock otherwise Pitcruvie) and Janet Napier presumed to be of the Merchiston Napiers. Janet Napier later married John Wilson a Burgess of Edinburgh (Parliamentary records of 1484).

John Ramsay was married to Isabel Cant in 1484. He then married Janet Kennedy, daughter of John Kennedy, 2nd Lord Kennedy, and Lady Elizabeth Seton, c. 6 November 1505. Janet Kennedy was a favourite mistress of King James IV of Scotland and this may have been a marriage of political convenience. He and Janet Kennedy were divorced. He then married Isobel Livingston, before February 1507/8.

He was attached to the court of King James III of Scotland and was resented by the traditional aristocrats. The principal charge against the King was his reliance on "low-born favourites", and Ramsay was clearly regarded as one of these. In parliament on 24 February 1484, the king bestowed the barony of Bothwell on him. In July 1482 he escaped execution by the King's opponents at Lauder Bridge by leaping on the King's horse, the only one of the King's favourites to survive. According to another version, he clung to the King and pleaded for his life: the King persuaded the lords to spare him on account of his extreme youth ( he may still have been only 18 ). He sat in Parliament in 1485 and 1487 as Lord Bothwell. He upset the aristocrats by obtaining a royal mandate that he alone could carry arms within the precincts of the royal residence, probably acting as a royal bodyguard in his role as Master of the Household. He was an Esquire of the King's Chamber, an auditor of the Exchequer in 1484, and a Commissioner for letting the Crown lands. He was Ambassador to England in 1485 and 1486. His reputation declined further after the death of Queen Margaret, whom he was accused of poisoning, although there is no evidence at all to support the charge.

On 8 October 1488, after the death of James III at the battle of Sauchieburn, John Ramsay lost his title. He remained in England, acting as a spy for Henry VII of England, and took payment to deliver the Scottish King James IV to Henry.

Under James IV he was allowed to return to Scotland in 1496, and on 8 September 1496 wrote from Berwick upon Tweed advising Henry VII how he might defeat the planned invasion of Northumbria by James IV and Perkin Warbeck.

He was rehabilitated on 8 April 1497 under the Great Seal, although not restored to his peerage or all of his former titles. He had liferent grants of the lands of Tealing and Polgavie in Fife, Trarinzeane near Cumnock in Ayrshire and half the lands of Kirkandrews in Wigtownshire. He took the title of Sir John Ramsay of Trarinzeane. On 13 May 1498 he had a charter of a tenement in the Cowgate, Edinburgh and another of lands in Forrester's Wynd on 6 November 1500.

In 1503 he was Captain of Linlithgow, probably of the palace there. He negotiated the marriage of James IV to the daughter of Henry VII, thereby laying the cornerstone of the United Kingdom.

On 13 May 1510, he had a grant from the King pro bono servitio et ex special favore of the lands and barony of Balmain in Kincardineshire, erected into a free barony for him and his successors.

He died on 9 September 1513 at Flodden Field, killed in action.

His son William born around 1510 was entrusted to the Bishop of Dunblane, James Chisholm, uterine brother of Sir John Ramsay. William was the ancestor of the Ramsays of Balmain.

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Lords of Parliament (pre-1707)
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Bogdan Matveyevich Khitrovo () (ca. 1615 – 27 March 1680) was a high-placed Russian statesman, or boyar, who served Tsar Alexis and his son Fyodor III, supporting the party of Maria Miloslavskaya. He is also noted for his patronage of icon-painter Simon Ushakov and Simeon of Polotsk, the first Russian poet.

It appears likely that Khitrovo was born in Grigoryevskoye, his father's estate in the region of Kaluga. He later would endow the Lyutikov Monastery in nearby Vorotynsk with a number of generous gifts, including an icon featuring his own portrait. He made a name for himself in the mid-1640s as a governor of Temnikov. At that time he established a chain of forts along the Volga river, including Simbirsk, which has an equestrian monument in his honor.

Starting in 1648, Khitrovo pursued a brilliant career at court. He was in charge of many prikazes between 1649 and 1664 and he held the office of Master of Arms, or Lord of the Kremlin Armoury, from 1654 until his death. This position allowed him to oversee the activities of major icon-painters in the employ of the Tsar. In the face of opposition from such eminent personages as Avvakum, Khitrovo encouraged the artists' interest in Western art, which resulted in an unprecedented flowering of naturalism in Russian icon-painting.

Khitrovo was related through his mother to the powerful Fyodor Rtishchev, with whom he shared a keen interest in Western culture and a penchant for philanthropy. He led Russian forces during a prolonged war with Poland and took part in the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Andrusovo. During the last 16 years of his life he performed the task of administering the Kremlin palaces, as well as other state estate, including several million of serfs.

The old boyar made a bequest of the Khitrovo Gospel, as well as other books and icons, to the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra and other monasteries. According to his will, all his kholops (slaves) were set free. His tomb is in the crypt of the Novodevichy Convent cathedral.

References
  Khitrovo's Biography, by V. A. Gurkin

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Sutton United Football Club is a professional football club in Sutton, London. They play in League Two, the fourth division of English football. In 1970, they beat Coventry City, who were in Division One then, in the FA Cup, last time a non-league club beat a major league club.

English football clubs
London Borough of Sutton

Sutton United F.C.


The Nieuwe Kerk ("New Church") in Katwijk, the Netherlands, is the oldest and best known work of the architect H.J. Jesse (1860–1943). It was built to replace the nearby Andreaskerk, which had become too small.

Construction of the church
Plans for building a new church were first considered in 1850. The search for a suitable location for the church began in 1883. The church authorities held a design contest, and about 53 designs were sent in. They chose the design of H.J. Jesse. Construction started in 1885, with the first stone being laid by the Baroness Van Wassenaer van Catwijck. The construction took two years, and the new church was opened in 1887. It is now a state monument.

Jesse designed a broad cross-shaped church with 1500 seats. The capacity was later extended to 2000 seats. The building consists of two wide, short aisles and a long transept. The church tower is approximately 51 meters high.

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Joseph Nevins is an American author, activist and associate professor of geography at Vassar College in New York.

Background
Joseph Nevins studies socio-territorial boundaries and mobility, imperialism, global apartheid and forms of political violence, political ecology, and matters of human rights, international law and social justice in the aftermath of mass atrocities. He has conducted research in East Timor, Mexico, and the United States-Mexico border region.

Nevins' writings have appeared in numerous journalistic publications, including Aljazeera English, Boston Review, CounterPunch, The Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, The Progressive, and The Washington Post.

Biography
Born and raised in Boston to a working-class family, he attended the city's public schools, including the prestigious Boston Latin School. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1987. It was as a student there that he became politically active, engaging in solidarity work with Central America, and efforts to end CIA recruitment on campus. He received a Ph.D. in geography in 1999 from UCLA.

A long-time solidarity activist with East Timor, Nevins is a founding member of the East Timor Action Network. He visited East Timor many times during the years of the Indonesian occupation and was the first American to meet with the East Timorese guerrilla movement. Under the pen name Matthew Jardine, he authored numerous articles and two books on the war and occupation, and on U.S. and Western complicity in Indonesia's crimes. In 1999, he helped to organize and coordinate the largest non-governmental observer mission for the UN-run plebiscite in East Timor which resulted in the country's eventual independence.

A father of two girls, Nevins is also a board member of the Tucson-based BorderLinks, a bi-national organization that offers experiential educational seminars along the border focusing on the issues of global economics, militarization, immigration, and popular resistance to oppression and violence. He is also a founder and board member of La'o Hamutuk, the East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis.

He is a blogger for the North American Congress on Latin America's "Border Wars."

Major works
A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor (Cornell University Press, 2005)
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the Illegal Alien and the Making of the US-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2002)
Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights, 2008)
Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2010)

References

External links
ZNet interview with Joseph Nevins re: Dying to Live
Review of Chris Hedges' "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning"
Review of Samantha Power's "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide"
Z Magazine review essay on U.S. empire
Essay on ecological privilege and flying
Yes! magazine essay: Kicking the Habit: Air Travel in the Time of Climate Change
"Robocop: Drones at Home," Boston Review
NACLA review essay on the occupation of U.S.-Mexico borderlands
"Power, privilege and climate change: A tale of two presidents," Aljazeera English
"Ecological crisis and the need to challenge the 20 percent," Aljazeera English
In a Time of Climate Change, Boston and the World Can't Afford the Olympics

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Gustav Heinrich Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz (20 March 1821 – 5 September 1890) was a German author.

Biography
He was born at Retzin near Perleberg in West Prignitz, of the noble Gans zu Putlitz family. He studied law at Berlin and Heidelberg, and was attached to the provincial government at Magdeburg from 1846 to 1848. In 1853 he married Gräfin Elisabeth von Königsmark, and lived on his estate.

In 1863, he became director of the Court Theatre at Schwerin. This post he left in 1867, was for a short time chamberlain to the crown prince of Prussia, afterwards the Emperor Frederick III, and from 1873 to 1889 successfully directed the Court theatre at Karlsruhe. He died at Retzien.

Works
Putlitz made his debut as a writer with a volume of romantic fairy stories in verse, Was sich der Wald erzählt (Tales told among the woods; 1850), which attained great popularity (fifty editions) and found many imitators.

He was most successful in his comedies, notably Badekuren (Spa cures; 1859), much read in the schools of the United States; Das Herz vergessen (Forgetting the heart; 1853), also much read in U.S. schools; and Spielt nicht mit dem Feuer! (Don't play with fire!; 1887). These portrayed life among the upper classes. Two notable dramas are Das Testament des Grossen Kurfürsten (1858) and Rolf Berndt (1881).

Of his novels, Die Alpenbraut (Bride of the Alps; 1870) and Walpurgis (1870) are distinguished by refined terseness of style and delicacy of portraiture. Also notable are Vergissmeinnicht (Forget me not; 1851), Brandenburgher Geschichten (Brandenburg Tales; 1862), Novellen (1863), and Funken unter der Asche (Sparks under the ashes; 1871).

Editions
A selection of his works, Ausgewählte Werke, was published in six volumes in Berlin (1872–1877), and a supplementary volume in 1888; his comedies, Lustspiele, appeared in two series of four volumes each (1851–1860 and 1869–1872).

Notes

References

Attribution:
 This work in turn cites Elisabeth zu Putlitz, Gustav zu Putlitz, Ein Lebensbild aus Briefen (Gustav zu Putlitz, a life sketch from letters; 3 vols., Berlin, 1894–1895).

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1890 deaths
Edlers of Germany
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Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
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German male dramatists and playwrights
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Fereidoon Tavallali or Fereydoun Tavallali () 1917, Shiraz - March 1985, Shiraz). was an Iranian poet, political commentator, archeologist and considered intellectual. In poetry, Tavallali is of a second generation of Iranian modernists, the nowpardaz (New Wave poets).

Biography
Feridoun Tavallali, the son of Djalal Khan, was a contemporary poet and political commentator born in Shiraz in 1917.

Beginnings
Feridoun Tavallali, the son of Djalal Khan, was a contemporary poet and political commentator born in Shiraz in 1917.

Even at a young age, he showed talent as a writer and poet, being taught and encouraged at school by writers such as M. Hamidi, B. Passargade and D. Torbati. In 1932, Tavallali completed his studies in archaeology and began working in his chosen field in the province of Fars. After twenty years of Reza Shah's dictatorship, the arrival of the Allies permitted some degree of liberalisation in the artistic world. At the beginning of this period, Tavallali published humoristic poems in the style of Golestan in Farvardin and Sourouch, two well-known journals. Both of these publications were so accomplished that they toppled another political idol.

Towards the end of 1944, faced with the misery of everyday life, an oppressive and unjust ruling class, and successive epidemics of typhus and typhoid, Tavallali, like many other young intellectuals, joined the Communist party (Hezbe Toudeh). He put his heart into fighting against injustice on the side of the poor, publishing hard-hitting articles in the journals Sourouch in Shiraz and Korshide Iran and Iranema in Teheran.

Political undertakings
In 1945, Tavallali published Atafacil, a collection of political satires. It was so successful that a second printing appeared in the same year. With unprecedented boldness, he denounced the riots in Fars by means of which the Ghasghaie tribal leaders sought to seize power. He also attacked Ghavam-Saltaneh, the powerful governor of Fars who had British support, as well as Seidzia-Tabatabai, who was at the origin of the autonomist revolt in Azerbaijan. He criticised these institutions openly without ever fearing for his own life. The poems Arradeh and Khan in Atafacil bear the marks of his combat in those tumultuous years.

In 1946, the province of Fars was subject to unrest stoked by the Ghasghaie leaders and all newspapers were prohibited. Tavallali then left for Teheran where he continued to publish his writings and continue his outspoken political struggle while working in archaeology.

In 1947, Tavallali, Khalile Maleki, Nima Youshidj, Nader Naderpoor, Ebtehadj and many other young Iranian patriots resigned from Hezbe Toudeh . There were many reasons for their decision: disagreements between the party leaders, concessions made by the party to the Russians over petroleum resources in the north, support from the party for independentist factions on the orders of the Russian Communist Party. Tavallali began his sincerely-felt patriotic battle against Hezbe Toudeh. His poem Red Slaves and other satirical poems in the style of Atafacil were published in Andisheh No (New Thought), the journal of his friend and ally Mehdi Parham as well as in the review "Moyen Orient" [Middle East?].

1950 saw the publication of Raha (Liberation), a collection of lyric poems in a revolutionary free-verse style. Some of these poems are still commonly recited in Iran: the river Caroune, Maryam, Afflicted love, etc.

Raha is the poet's most-widely known book due to its new and original style. In the preface, Tavallali criticised the old-fashioned style of Persian verse. In the same year, he returned to Shiraz where he continued to agitate passionately against British imperialism and provided his support to Dr Mossadegh by writing articles for the highly influential journal Sedaye Shiraz (The voice of Shiraz).

Câravân, published in 1953, was written in the same satirical-didactic style as Atafacil.

Inner exile
fter the coup d'état against Mossadegh in 1952, Tavallali fled Shiraz for Teheran and his house was sacked and torched. He lived clandestinely for a year. The outcome of the coup was paralysing for the country's democrats: he was unable to publish and was obliged to fall back on his own resources and keep quiet.

In 1958, he returned to Shiraz and became director of archaeology in the province of Fars.

In 1961 he was able to publish a collection of poems Nafeh (Musk), written in an inventive new style on psychological themes with an analytic tendency: "The Castle of Illusions". The poem "Norouz" accurately expresses the spirit of this work.

In 1964, he became an adviser to the University of Shiraz.

After four years of silence, he published Pouyeh (The Path), a collection of traditional poems (ghazals).

In 1973, another collection Shagarf (Wonder) appeared, accompanied by a long foreword on the purity and genius of contemporary poetry in which he gave a clear account of his own poetry and defended the poet's right to total freedom of expression.

Critical appraisal
In the light of his biography, there are two distinct periods in his life:

 a first period from his youth until the coup d'état of 1952,
 a second period from 1952 until the end of his life.

In the first period, Tavallali was a revolutionary young poet, confrontational and innovative. He nursed, above all, a great admiration for the poems of Nima, since Nima did not adhere to the traditional verse forms. But he distanced himself when he thought Nima was not only neglecting rhyme and rhythm but allowing his poems to become incomprehensible. During this period, Tavallali composed poems in a new, measured style which respected rhyme and rhythm but without being tradition-bound. He was followed in this direction by many young and talented poets. The collections Raha and Nafeh are written in this manner. The original composition, the clarity of meaning, the music of the words, the novelty and force of the ideas raise him to the summit of Persian poetry, alongside such great names as Ferdowsi, Nezami, Saadi, Hâfez.

His works Atafacil and Câravân are not only of a great literary merit—politically they can be considered the weapons of a patriotic poet fighting for freedom and are thus of great historical significance.

In the second period, all the liberal leaders and those opposed to the Shah's regime were assassinated, imprisoned or exiled, and the atmosphere in the country became stifling. Censorship had closed mouths and broken pens; and for twenty years, there was barely a glimmer of hope. That is why Tavallali was obliged to withdraw from the political world and isolate himself; like Hâfez, he sought refuge in love poetry (ghazal). In his retreat, he composed poems critical of the dictatorship in force, but no review dared to publish them. His poems passed from hand to hand among friends and sympathisers. Nevertheless, he managed to publish a few poems indirectly critical of the regime in the journal Bâhâre-e-Iran (Springtime of Iran), but this ournal was rapidly impounded and allowed to appear only of it published nothing by Tavallali.

His ghazals and didactic works free of any political references were tolerated in literary magazines such as Sokhan, Vahide, and Yaghmâ.

Tavallali is a powerful poet and accomplished writer, as well as a talented humorist. His Atafacil is, like Saadi's Golestan, inimitable. The elegance of his lyricism recalls that of Hâfez. His satirical portraits have no equal in Persian literature. He is a master in the art of coining new words.

Tavallali died in 1985 after a long illness. He is buried in the family tomb at Shiraz, not far from the great poet Hâfez.
Like other poets of his time (Shamlu, Akhavan and Forugh), Tavallali experimented with the style of Nima Yooshij.
Their poetry was in prose style with elements of Dadaism, automatism, futurism and surrealism.

Posthumous works
His three daughters, Nima, Fariba and Raha live in the United States and Europe. His wife Mahin, to whom he dedicated all his works, founded the literary circle "Khâne-ye-Feridoun" (Feridoun's House) which regularly brings together writers, poets, historians and researchers.

Mahin Tavallali issued two collections of her husband's unpublished poems: Bâzgasht (The Return) in 1991 and Kabousse (Nightmare) in 2008.

Works
 Al-Tafasil
 Pouye
 Raha (Tehran 1950)
 Karvan
 Nafe
 Bazgasht
 Le Coeur Hospitalier
 Mary

References

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1917 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Iranian poets
Qashqai people
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20th-century male writers
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Fereidoon Tavallali


Michael Frank Deering (born 1956) is a computer scientist, a former chief engineer for Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, and a widely recognized expert on artificial intelligence, computer vision, 3D graphics hardware/software, very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and virtual reality. Deering oversaw Sun's 3D graphics technical strategy as the chief hardware graphics architect and is a co-architect of the Java 3D API, developing Java platform software. He is the inventor of deferred shading, inventor of Geometry compression, co-inventor of 3D-RAM, and the chief architect for a number of Sun's 3D graphics hardware accelerators. Many of his inventions have been patented.

Deering's research endeavors have included development of correct perspective viewing equations, correcting for the optics of both human eyeballs and glass cathode ray tubes, predictive head trackers and other virtual reality interface hardware.

Deering has published articles on computer graphics architectures, virtual reality systems, and 3D interface technologies.

Education and early career
In 1978, Deering received his bachelor's degree, and in 1981 his PhD, in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an alumnus of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley.

Prior to his tenure with Sun, Deering worked for Schlumberger Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, engaged in graphics and imaging research.

Published works
 2002 'The SAGE graphics architecture', Michael Deering, David Naegle, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques SIGGRAPH '02, volume 21, no 3, ACM Press
 2000 The Java 3d API Specification with Cdrom, Henry Sowizral, Kevin Rushforth, Michael Deering, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co.
 1998 "Introduction to Programming with Java 3D", Henry Sowizral, Dave Nadeau, Michael Deering, Mike Bailey, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH '98, ACM Press
 1995 "Geometry compression", Michael Deering, Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH '95, vol 29, p 13-20, ACM Press,
 1992 "High resolution virtual reality", Michael Deering, Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques SIGGRAPH '92, vol 26, no 2, p 195-202, ACM Press
 1988 "The triangle processor and normal vector shader: a VLSI system for high performance graphics", Michael Deering, Stephanie Winner, Bic Schediwy, Chris Duffy, Neil Hunt, Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, SIGGRAPH '88, vol 22, no 4, p 21-30, ACM Press
 1986 Database Support for Storage of AI Reasoning Knowledge. In Expert Database Systems, M. Deering, J. Faletti, Benjamin Cummings (publisher)

References

External links
 MichaelFrankDeering.com - Michael Deering homepage
 Berkeley.edu - 'CS 294-4: Intelligent DRAM (IRAM) Lecture 4: 3DRAM (renamed FB RAM)', Michael Deering (January 24, 1996)
  - Geometry Compression - Sam Liang
 PSU.edu - Geometry Compression, Michael Deering, Pennsylvania State University
 Stanford.edu - 'Program in Human-Computer Interaction', Stanford University, (October 21, 1994)
 Sun.com - 'The Java 3D API Specification', Henry Sowizral, Kevin Rushforth, Michael Deering
 UMich.edu - 'Revival of the Virtual Lathe', University of Michigan Virtual Reality Laboratory

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Matthew James Adams (born August 31, 1988) is an American professional baseball first baseman in the Washington Nationals organization. Nicknamed "Big City" for his imposing size and ability to regularly hit long home runs, the St. Louis Cardinals selected Adams in the 23rd round of the 2009 MLB draft from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals, and Colorado Rockies.

Playing in the Texas League in 2011, Adams was recognized as that league's Most Valuable Player and the Cardinals Minor League Player of the Year with a .300 batting average, 32 home runs and 101 runs batted in. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012. In his rookie season in 2013, Adams hit 17 home runs in 296 at-bats. Adams has also played in MLB for the Atlanta Braves, the Colorado Rockies and the Washington Nationals, and won the 2019 World Series with the Nationals.

Early life
Adams grew up in Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Philipsburg-Osceola High School he attended Slippery Rock University where he holds the career records of batting average (.473) and slugging percentage (.754). In 2009, he was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Division II National Player of the Year.

Professional career

St. Louis Cardinals

Minor leagues
The St. Louis Cardinals drafted Matt Adams in the 23rd round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. At each level he played in the minor leagues, Adams displayed prodigious hitting ability. His first full-season assignment came in 2010 with the Quad Cities River Bandits of the Single–A Midwest League. In 121 games, he batted .310 with 71 runs scored, 44 doubles, 22 home runs (HR), and 88 runs batted in (RBI). His .541 slugging percentage (SLG) led all Cardinals minor leaguers.

In 2011, Adams was named the Cardinals Minor League Player of the Year and the Texas League Most Valuable Player (MVP) after hitting .300, a .357 on-base percentage (OBP) and .566 SLG with 32 HR and 101 RBI in 115 games. He set club records in home runs and RBI, including eclipsing the mark of 29 HR Colby Rasmus set in 2007. After the season, Adams played in the Arizona Fall League (AFL), and he was selected to represent the Cardinals in the AFL Rising Stars Game.

Major leagues

2012
Prior to the 2012 season, Baseball America considered him the ninth best prospect in the Cardinals organization. On May 20, 2012, the Cardinals called Adams up after placing Lance Berkman on the disabled list (DL). He went 2-for-4 in his major league debut. He hit his first major league home run six days later. Adams played in 27 games with the Cardinals where he hit .244 with 13 RBI and two home runs before returning to Memphis.

Splitting time between the Memphis Redbirds of the Triple–A Pacific Coast League and the Cardinals, he continued to show consistent power and batting average in the minor leagues. At Memphis, Adams hit 18 home runs with 50 RBI as he batted .329 with a .624 slugging percentage. However, an elbow injury brought an early end to his 2012 season. The injury, which had been a nagging problem much of summer, finally had to be treated surgically in mid-August to remove a bone spur.

2013
Adams led the Cardinals in 2013 spring training with 17 RBI. It was at that point that Adams earned his nickname, "Big City." According to former teammate David Freese, several players had been searching for a nickname for the 6 ft 3 inch 230-pounder, when one day someone shouted out "Big City". Said Freese: "Well he's a big boy that can rake [the ball]. I guess it hit because the guy can flat-out hit." Adams started off the regular season on the St. Louis Cardinals roster as a bench player, backing up first baseman Allen Craig. He caught the attention of the fans and media early on when in his first ten plate appearances he hit three home runs, two doubles, three singles, and a walk. For a significant part of April, his batting average hovered between .640 and .700.

With a right oblique strain, the Cardinals placed Adams on the 15-day disabled list on April 26, retroactive to April 22. As the season progressed, teams began to notice his pull-hitting tendencies and often employed an extreme infield shift on him that left one or no fielders on the left side of the second base bag. He also had difficulty hitting off-speed pitches from left-handed pitchers. Because he often grounded out to the right side of the bag, his batting average began to precipitously decline. In June, he batted just .179 and .205 in August.

At the conclusion of his rookie season, Adams finished with a .284 batting average and .503 SLG. He connected for 17 HR in 296 AB for a ratio of one home run every 17.41 at bats. That represented the third-best figure for rookies in franchise history. His home run to fly ball ratio was 21.8%, ranking 11th in the major leagues for all players with at least 300 PA. Regular right fielder Carlos Beltrán became a free agent after the season. Craig shifted to right field to replace him, clearing a way for Adams to assume first base regularly.

2014

During a game against the Cincinnati Reds on April 3, 2014 in Cincinnati, Adams was attempting to catch a Chris Heisey pop-up that sailed into the shallow part of the seats. The infield tarp was in Adams' run path. As he leaned over the tarp to catch the ball, it was falling toward the second row of seats, and a fan named Chris Smith caught the ball with his own glove just above Adams' outstretch glove. Adams shifted his momentum to stand back up behind the tarp, and planted his glove on Smith's chest, pushing himself backward with a moderate shove. Smith, who had been recovering from knee surgery, gestured an obscenity with his hand toward him. During post-game interviews, Adams stated that he did not realize he had shoved Smith, but that he was preventing himself from falling into the stands.

Opponents escalated the rate of infield shifting the employed against Adams in 2014, as it was already a league-wide trend. To foil the shift, he began to hit the ball more to left field (also a technique known as "taking the pitch the other way") from the outset of the season. Another difference from the season prior was that he did not hit his first home run until the eleventh game of 2014, which took place against the Chicago Cubs. The results of his modified approach began to show, as he was batting .357 with a .400 OBP and .548 SLG through that game. Despite the drop-off in the power numbers, he continued to hit well against the shift. As of June 10, he was batting .390 (16 for 41) on ground balls and line drives against the shift with three home runs for the year. He also did it without successfully bunting for a base hit.

The team placed Adams on the DL for the second time in his MLB career from May–June. After his return, he homered in the first three games. His first multi-homer game of the season came against the Colorado Rockies on June 23 at Coors Field with two home runs and six RBI in an 8–0 victory. This was Adams' third MLB multi-home run game and first the six-RBI game for the Cardinals since David Freese did it June 7, 2012 against the Houston Astros. In a July 7 contest against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Adams hit the first walk-off home run in the regular season by a Cardinals batter since Skip Schumaker did so against the Kansas City Royals in 2011.

In Game 4 of the 2014 NLDS, Adams erased the Los Angeles Dodgers' 2–0 lead in the 7th inning with a three-run homer off ace Clayton Kershaw. The home run accounted for the winning runs in the Cardinals' 3–2 victory, helping to secure their fourth straight NLCS appearance.

2015–2017

On May 27, 2015, the Cardinals placed Adams on the DL with a torn quadriceps muscle, and he was initially supposed to miss the remainder of the season. The Cardinals reactivated him on September 9. As an arbitration-eligible player prior to the 2016 season, Adams and the Cardinals agreed to a one-year, $1.65 million contract. He continued his success in foiling the shift through May 2016 by a slight modification to his swing, and as a result, successfully gaining hits to each of the three outfield zones over 30 percent of the time. He had hit .354, three home runs, 14 RBI and .604 SLG through the first 25 days of that month.

On July 22, 2016, while playing the Dodgers, Adams hit a  home run in the 16th inning for walk-off, 4−3, win. It was the second time in his career he had hit a walk-off home run in the 16th inning.

Atlanta Braves
On May 20, 2017, the Cardinals traded Adams and cash considerations to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for minor league infielder Juan Yepez.

Washington Nationals
Adams signed a one-year contract with the Washington Nationals on December 22, 2017. On May 7, he homered twice versus the San Diego Padres, giving him his sixth and seventh in seven games, along with 13 RBI. He had hit 10 home runs through that point in the season. Before he was traded, with the Nationals in 2018 he batted .257/.332/.510 with 18 home runs and 48 RBIs.

St. Louis Cardinals (second stint)
On August 21, 2018, Adams was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for cash considerations. With the Cardinals in 2018, he batted .158/.200/.333 in 57 at bats. Between the two teams in 2018, he batted .239/.309/.477 with 21 home runs and 57 RBIs in 306 at bats.

Washington Nationals (second stint)
On December 15, 2018, Adams agreed to a one year, $4 million deal with the Washington Nationals. In 2019 he batted .226/.276/.465 with 20 home runs and 56 RBIs as the Nationals went on to win the 2019 World Series. The Nationals did not exercise a mutual option to bring Adams back for the 2020 season.

New York Mets
On January 31, 2020, Adams signed a minor league deal with the New York Mets. He elected to become a free agent on July 18, 2020.

Atlanta Braves (second stint)
On July 20, 2020, Adams signed a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves organization. He was informed that he made the Braves Opening Day Roster on July 23. On August 30, the Braves designated Adams for assignment. Adams was released on September 3, 2020.

Colorado Rockies
On March 28, 2021, Adams signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies organization. On April 29, 2021, Adams was selected to the active roster. Adams hit .167/.250/.194 in 22 games for the Rockies before he was released on July 27.

Kansas City Monarchs
On April 21, 2022, Adams signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball. Adams played in 80 games for the Monarchs, slashing .248/.327/.554 with 27 home runs and 85 RBI. He was named an All-Star for the team in 2022. Adams was released by the Monarchs on August 25.

Washington Nationals (third stint)
On December 14, 2022, Adams signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals organization.  He played in 102 games for the Nats' AAA affiliate Rochester Red Wings, batting .246 with 17 home runs.

Personal life
Adams and his wife, Kim, married in 2020. They reside in St. Louis during the offseason.

Prior to the 2017 season, Adams lost over thirty pounds.

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An Arizona room is a semi-outdoor recreational room found frequently in homes in Arizona, based on similar concepts as the Florida room. The room is often a patio that has been covered and screened-in, creating an outdoor feeling while preventing excessive heat and keeping insects and animals out. The room generally borders the back yard of the house and is often accessed directly from the living room, kitchen or other common room of the home.

According to a website run by Phoenix newspaper The Arizona Republic, residents slept in their Arizona room during the summer months, before the advent of air conditioning, because the flow of cool night air made them more comfortable than in an enclosed bedroom.

Arizona rooms are often decorated with Southwestern decor and furniture, and reflect the casual, informal style characteristic of the Southwest.

See also
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Screened porch
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William "Turkey" Smart (1830–1919) was a champion speed skater and the first of a dynasty of skaters from the small village of Welney, on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border in the centre of the Fens, England.

Early life and marriage

Turkey Smart was born in 1830 on the banks of the Old Bedford River. He did not go to school and from an early age was working as an agricultural labourer. In 1852, aged 22, he married Susan See, also a 22-year-old agricultural labourer from Welney. They had 11 children (George, Robert, Emma, Henrietta, Harriett, Hannah, William, James, Joseph, Frederic and Mary Ann) of whom only James (born 1865) became a skater.

Champion of the Fens

Turkey Smart's reign as champion of the Fens began in 1854 when, in a 2-mile race at Welney, he took the title from Larman Register of Southery. With an exceptionally long stroke and low crouching style, Turkey Smart was able to outrun all opposition.

A month's cold spell in early 1855 saw Turkey Smart winning 13 matches at Outwell, Salter's Lode, Welney, Benwick, Mepal, March, Deeping, Ely, Peterborough and Wisbech in front of crowds of thousands. Each match consisted of four rounds skated in pairs over a 2-mile course, with the winner and runner-up skating a total of 8 miles in a day. His prize money for that month's skating came to £58 15s and a leg of mutton – the equivalent of about 2 years' average earnings for an agricultural worker.

Turkey Smart continued his winning streak until 1861, when, hampered by a scythe injury to his leg, he shared the title with his brother-in-law and main rival on ice William "Gutta Percha" See. There followed a series of mild winters and when the championship was next held in 1867 Turkey Smart and Gutta Percha See were outpaced by younger men.

"A glorious has-been"

Undeterred by defeat and a leg injury, Turkey Smart continued to skate competitively into his fifties. An editorial in the Times, written 26 years after Turkey Smart's death and looking back to the golden age of Fen skating in the last decades of the nineteenth century, described him as "a glorious has-been".

At one match in Mepal in 1878 Turkey Smart and Gutta Percha See (aged 48 and 45 respectively) both won their first rounds. In the second round they were drawn against each other and Gutta Percha See won in a close finish, only to be beaten by his 16-year-old son George "Young Gutty" See in the semi-final. Young Gutty See then lost to his cousin George "Flying Fish" Smart in the final.

Although he usually lost in the early rounds of matches, Turkey Smart was still a force to be reckoned with. In January 1879 he got through three rounds of a match at Littleport, defeating nephew Jarman Smart along the way, only to lose in the semi-final to nephew Young Gutty See. The following day he was beaten by nephew Fish Smart in the second round of a match at Ely. Three days later he was a second-round loser at Swavesey having easily beaten one of Lancashire's best skaters in the first round. Later that year the first British professional championship was held under the auspices of the recently set up National Skating Association. Turkey Smart lost in the first round, but received an ovation from the crowd.

In 1881 Turkey Smart skated in a 1-mile race at Edgbaston Pool, Birmingham, and although coming in behind his fellow fenmen, managed to beat the best of Birmingham by 250 yards.

In his sixties, Turkey Smart was still taking to the ice for exhibition races.

The next generation

Six Smart and See cousins from Welney dominated British skating in the last 2 decades of the nineteenth century. Brothers Fish, James and Jarman Smart were the sons of Charles Smart and Phoebe See (sister of Susan Smart and Gutta Percha See). James "Young Turkey" Smart was Turkey Smart's son. George and Isaac See were the sons of Gutta Percha See.

Fish Smart won three consecutive British professional championships in 1879, 1881 and 1887.  His brother James was British professional champion in 1889, 1890 and 1895 and also took the title of world professional champion in the Netherlands in 1895. George See was British champion in 1892.

Turkey Smart and his wife both died in 1919. They lost five grandsons in World War I.

References

 N & A Goodman 1881 Handbook of Fen skating. London.
 E Porter 1969 Fenland skating. Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough Life, February issue.
 J Slater and A Bunch 2000 Fen speed skating: an illustrated history. March.
 HA Winter 1994 The Welney division: a history of the Smart family, speed skating champions in the golden age of Fen skating. Wisbech.

See also
Fen skating

British male speed skaters
People from King's Lynn and West Norfolk (district)
1830 births
1919 deaths

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