is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast on NHK in 1985–1986. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel Sanada Taiheiki. The drama focuses on the history of the Sanada clan during the late Sengoku period. The complete DVD box is available.

Plot

In 1582, Oda and Tokugawa allied forces started an invasion of Takeda`s Kai Province. so Takeda clan was in danger of extinction. Sanada Masayuki advised Takeda Katsuyori to abandon Kai Province and flee towards Masayuki`s Iwabitsu Castle. Katsuyori accepted his suggestion once but he changed his mind and tried to flee towards Oyamada Nobushige`s Iwadono Castle but was betrayed by Oyamada Nobushige and killed himself at Tenmokuzan. Lost the lord, the Sanada clan unexpectedly became a small daimyo. The Sanada clan seeks the way to survive.

Production
Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Sanada Clan
Tsunehiko Watase as Sanada Nobuyuki
Masao Kusakari  as Sanada Nobushige (Yukimura)
Tetsuro Tamba as Sanada Masayuki
Takaaki Enoki as Higuchi Kakubei
Isao Natsuyagi as Tsubuya Matagorō
Haruka Kurara as Oko
Yoshi Katō as Yazawa Yoritsuna
Akiko Koyama as Yamanote Dono
Ryo Kinomoto as Mukai Saheiji
Misako Konno as Komatsuhime
Kumi Nakamura as Chikurin-in
Kataoka Takatarō as Sanada Daisuke

Uesugi Clan
Takao Itō as Uesugi Kagekatsu
Makoto Shimotsuka as Naoe Kanetsugu

Tokugawa Clan
Nakamura Umenosuke IV as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Nakamura Baijaku II as Tokugawa Hidetada
Takeshi Katō as Honda Tadakatsu
Junpei Morita as Honda Tadamasa
Akio Tanaka as Honda Masanobu
Kantarō Suga as Ii Naomasa
Rokko Toura as Ninja Nakayama Nagatoshi
Kyosuke Machida as Ninja Ban Naganobu

Toyotomi Clan
Hiroyuki Nagato as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Hiroshi Tsuburaya as Toyotomi Hideyori
Masami Horiuchi as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
Keiko Tsushima as Kōdai-in
Mariko Okada as Yodo-dono
Youki Kudoh as Senhime
Kōji Shimizu as Ishida Mitsunari
Makoto Yuasa as Shima Sakon
Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Ōno Harunaga
Kōichi Yamamoto as Katagiri Katsumoto
Toshio Takahara as Nagai
Yōsuke Kondō as Gotō Mototsugu
Hiroshi Miyauchi as Mōri Katsunaga
Koreharu Hisatomi as Chōsokabe Morichika

Takeda Clan
Akiar Hiroshige Takeda Katsuyori
Yūsuke Tozawa as Oyamada Nobushige

Later Hōjō clan
Shōzō Fukuyama as Hōjō Ujimasa
Jinya Satō as Hōjō Ujinao

Maeda Clan
Shinsuke Mikimoto as Maeda Toshiie
Hiroko Kōda as Maeda Matsu
Hisayuki Nakajima as Maeda Toshinaga

The Eastern Army
Raita Ryu as Katō Kiyomasa
Nobuyuki Katsube as Fukushima Masanori
Hirotarō Honda as Asano Yoshinaga

The Western Army
Kunio Murai as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
Akira Ishihama as Ukita Hideie
Takahide Tashiro as Kobayakawa Hideaki
Shōji Nakayama as Mōri Terumoto

Others

 Keiko Takeshita as Ono no Otsu
 Chiyonosuke Azuma as Yagyū Munetoshi

References

External links
 Sanada Taiheiki  - NHK) NHK Archives

NHK television dramas
1985 Japanese television series debuts
Jidaigeki television series
1980s drama television series
Television shows based on Japanese novels
Cultural depictions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Cultural depictions of Sanada clan
Television series set in the 16th century
Television series set in the 17th century

Sanada Taiheiki (TV series)


Pearson's correlation is a mathematical formula used to calculate correlation coefficients between two datasets. Most computer programs have a command to calculate this such as CORREL(dataset x: dataset y). You can calculate this by...

 Step 1: Find the mean of x, and the mean of y
 Step 2: Subtract the mean of x from every x value (call them "a"), and subtract the mean of y from every y value (call them "b")
 Step 3: Calculate: ab, a2 and b2 for every value
 Step 4: Sum up ab, sum up a2 and sum up b2
 Step 5: Divide the sum of ab by the square root of [(sum of a2) × (sum of b2)]
Developed by Karl Pearson in the 1880's,

Statistics

Pearson correlation coefficient


James John Nance (19 February 1900 – 21 July 1984) was an American industrialist who became president of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. Later, he was chief executive of the Central National Bank of Cleveland, chairman of the executive committee of Montgomery Ward and chairman of the board of trustees of the Cleveland State University and a major property investor.

Early life
Nance was born in Portsmouth, Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1900 to George W. Nance and Florence Nance. He was raised on their farm. Following military service during World War I, Nance graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1923; he also attended the Ohio State University where he pursued post-graduate course work.

Career
Nance began his career at National Cash Register (NCR) in 1924, staying until 1927 when he joined General Motors' Frigidaire division. In 1940 he left Frigidaire when he was named vice president of Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago. Nance was named CEO of General Electric's Hotpoint brand in 1945 and CEO of the Packard Motor Car Company in 1952.

While at Studebaker Packard, Nance moved to separate the Packard Clipper range of vehicles into a stand-alone brand, Clipper. He also expedited development of Packard's first V8 engine and automatic transmission, Ultramatic.

Nance helped to orchestrate the 1954 Packard acquisition of the Studebaker Corporation, creating the Studebaker Packard Corporation in 1954. While the Studebaker merger appeared to be in the best interests of both automakers, Studebaker failed to provide Packard with a full disclosure of its tenuous cash position, jeopardizing both marques.

While Nance had held informal talks with George W. Mason of Nash Kelvinator about a potential merger that would bring all the U.S. independent automakers under one corporate entity, formal discussions were never established. Any hope of those discussions moving forward ended with Mason's death in October 1954.

Nance left Studebaker Packard in 1956 when the company was on the verge of insolvency, but not until he found the organization a safe-harbor relationship with airplane manufacturer Curtiss-Wright.

Following his tenure at Studebaker Packard, Nance was named vice president of Ford's Mercury Edsel Lincoln Division, but resigned under pressure from top Ford executives in 1959 when the Edsel's sales were poor.

He left the automobile business following his tenure with Ford and became president and CEO of Central National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio in 1960, being elevated to the position of chairman and CEO in 1962. According to Nance he left the automobile industry because while there he had learned that everything depended on money and who controlled it.

Following his retirement from Central National, Nance established his own consulting firm in Cleveland, Ohio.

Community leadership roles
In 1964 Nance was named as the first chairman of the board of trustees of Cleveland State University, a position that he held until 1970. Cleveland State named its business college in his honor (renaming it in June 2011 to honor another board of trustees chair, Monte Ahuja) and its library holds Nance's personal papers .

In addition to his tenure on the board of CSU, Nance also served as a life trustee for Northwestern University, trustee for Ohio Wesleyan University and a trustee for University Hospitals of Cleveland, an affiliate of Case Western Reserve University.

Personal life
Nance married the former Laura Battelle in 1925; the couple had two children. Following Nance's retirement he maintained his principal residence in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Mrs. Nance died in Michigan on October 26, 1977, at the age of 78.

References

 Durrance, Thomas The Hard Road: Studebaker-Packard is fighting back. Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, Boston, Mass.: Nov 8, 1954. Vol. 34, Iss. 45; pp. 3.
 Editors. Who Was Who in America - Volume 9, 1986–1989. Marquis Publishing.

1900 births
American chief executives of financial services companies
Cleveland State University people
People in the automobile industry
Ohio State University alumni
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
1984 deaths
Montgomery Ward
Studebaker people
Packard people
20th-century American businesspeople
People from Lawrence County, Ohio
People from Chagrin Falls, Ohio

James J. Nance


Mount Meeks () is a mountain,  high, surmounting the rocky divide between Griffith Glacier and Howe Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Harman T. Meeks of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, a navigator on aircraft during Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967.

References

Mountains of Marie Byrd Land

Mount Meeks


Gabriel Martinez (born 1967 in Miami, Florida) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working mostly in photography, sculpture, installation and performance.

Martinez graduated from the University of Florida in 1989 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.  He continued his education at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, earning his Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1991. Martinez attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in 2003. Martinez was a Pew Fellowship in the Arts recipient in 2001 and was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship recipient in 2003. He has received two Individual Artists Grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Martinez has been an artist-in-residence at both the Fabric Workshop and Museum and at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, both in Philadelphia.

Martinez's work over the last seventeen years has most often been focused upon the male body. Early on, Martinez used his own naked body in both photography and performance-based works. His work from about 1997 to present has in many ways embodied the homosexual male gaze upon the heterosexual male body. The work typically evokes tension and apprehension.

His best-known body of work perhaps is "Self Portraits by Heterosexual Men." In 1998, Martinez created ambrotypes from 'self-portraits' recorded on 35mm film by one hundred, presumably straight men who took the shots at the point of manually, self-induced ecstasy (with the assistance of a cable release). In 2007, Martinez revisited this project arming the performers with a digital camera and a remote controlled shutter release with multi-exposure capabilities. This allowed the men to snap several photos during the time of expulsion and gave Martinez the ability to select the most expressive image for the individual giving insight on the location and objects the performer kept around at the time of the act. The project was composed of one hundred 20" x 30" framed c-prints.

Martinez held the position of Director of Graduate Photography Studies from 2004 to 2007 at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the Coordinator of Undergraduate Photography at University of Pennsylvania.

Martinez work has been exhibited extensively: the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2006); Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL (2004); Philadelphia Art Alliance (2003); Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia (1998, 1995); White Columns, New York, NY (1995). Over seventy group exhibitions since 1989, including Exit Art, NY (2006, 2005); Art Mur Gallery, Montreal, Canada (2005); Gallery Muu, Helsinki, Finland (2004); Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA (2004); Miami Art Central, Miami, FL (2004); Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY (2004); Samson Projects, Boston (2004); Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (2000); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2000); Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA (1998); Philadelphia Museum of Art (1998, 1997); Franklin Furnace, New York (1997); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1996); Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1995); ABC No Rio, New York (1992).

Books and Catalogues
 Self-Portraits (Samson Projects, 2007)

External links
 Gabriel Martinez.com.
 Gabriel Martinez on Artnet.

1967 births
American people of Cuban descent
Artists from Miami
University of Florida alumni
Living people
Pew Fellows in the Arts

Gabriel Martinez (artist)


Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a 2017 science fiction superhero movie directed by James Gunn and a sequel to the 2014 movie Guardians of the Galaxy.

Cast
Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord
Zoe Saldana as Gamora
Dave Bautista as Drax
Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot
Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket Raccoon
Karen Gillan as Nebula
Kurt Russell as Ego the Living Planet
Michael Rooker as Yondu
Sean Gunn as Kraglin
Sylvester Stallone
Ving Rhames
Miley Cyrus
David Hasselhoff as himself

2017 action movies
2017 science fiction movies
2017 comedy movies
2010s action comedy movies
2010s sequel movies
2010s superhero movies
American science fiction movies
American action comedy movies
Marvel Cinematic Universe movies
Movies about raccoons
Movies composed by Tyler Bates
Movies directed by James Gunn
Movies set in the 1980s
Movies set in the 2010s
Movies with screenplays by James Gunn
Superhero comedy movies
American superhero movies
Movies set in Missouri

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2


"Moonlight Bay" is a popular song. It is commonly referred to as "On Moonlight Bay". The lyrics were written by Edward Madden, the music by Percy Wenrich, and was published in 1912. It is often sung in a barbershop quartet style. Early successful recordings in 1912 were by the American Quartet and by Dolly Connolly.

Notable covers
 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded the song on March 22, 1937, with a special swing arrangement by Miller.
 The song was featured the film Tin Pan Alley (1940), where it was sung by Alice Faye. Faye also included the song in her 1962 album Alice Faye Sings Her Greatest Movie Hits.
 The song, sung in barbershop quartet style, features in the first Daffy Duck cartoon, Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).
 Porky Pig repeatedly tries to sing the song in the 1942 cartoon My Favorite Duck.
 The Mills Brothers recorded the song in 1940 for Decca Records.
 The song was featured in the musical film On Moonlight Bay (1951) and gave the film its title; it was sung by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Day also recorded the song commercially, and it appeared on her 1951 album On Moonlight Bay, featuring songs from the film.
 A duet performance by Bing Crosby and Gary Crosby was recorded on March 22, 1951, and reached No. 14 in the Billboard charts in 1951.
 The Beatles performed "Moonlight Bay" with comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise on the duo's ATV programme Two of a Kind in December 1963. A recording of the performance was released on the Beatles' album Anthology 1 in 1995.
 The song was sung in episodes of Hey Arnold!.
 In the 1942 film Ship Ahoy, Tommy Dorsey leads his orchestra while Eleanor Powell does a tap dance conveying a message in Morse code.

Verses
Voices hum, crooning over Moonlight Bay
Banjos strum, tuning while the moonbeams play
All alone, unknown they find me
Memories like these remind me
Of the girl I left behind me
Down on Moonlight Bay

Candle lights gleaming on the silent shore
Lonely nights, dreaming till we meet once more
Far apart, her heart, is yearning
With a sigh for my returning
With the light of love still burning
As in days of yore

Chorus
We were sailing along
On Moonlight Bay.
We could hear the voices ringing;
They seemed to say,
"You have stolen my heart"
"Now don't go 'way!"
As we sang "Love's Old Sweet Song"
On Moonlight Bay

The original sheet music and 1912 recordings use the lyrics above.

References

External links

Recording by Billy Murray and the American Quartet

Songs with music by Percy Wenrich
Songs with lyrics by Edward Madden
1912 songs
Looney Tunes songs
Doris Day songs
Billy Murray (singer) songs
The Beatles songs

Moonlight Bay


Hypoxia-inducible factor 3 alpha is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIF3A gene.

Function

The protein encoded by this gene is the alpha-3 subunit of one of several alpha/beta-subunit heterodimeric transcription factors that regulate many adaptive responses to low oxygen tension (hypoxia). The alpha-3 subunit lacks the transactivation domain found in factors containing either the alpha-1 or alpha-2 subunits. It is thought that factors containing the alpha-3 subunit are negative regulators of hypoxia-inducible gene expression. At least three transcript variants encoding three different isoforms have been found for this gene.

In rats, it plays a negative role in the adaptation to hypoxia, because the inhibition of HIF-3α expression leads to an increase in physical endurance.

Clinical significance

DNA methylation in the introns of HIF3A is associated with BMI an adiposity.

See also
 Hypoxia inducible factors

References

Further reading

Transcription factors
PAS-domain-containing proteins

HIF3A


Tracy L. Beckman (born January 7, 1945) is a Minnesota politician and is a former member of the Minnesota Senate from southern Minnesota. First elected in 1986 in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's "firestorm" that swept through the region, giving Democrats unprecedented control of southwestern Minnesota for the next several election cycles, Beckman served four terms. He was re-elected in 1990, 1992 and 1996. He represented the old District 29 and, later, District 26, which included all or portions of Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Waseca and Watonwan  counties, changing somewhat through redistricting in 1990.

From the small town of Bricelyn, Beckman, a corn processing plant manager, consultant, hardware store owner and former teacher, earned a reputation as a strong advocate for agricultural issues, processing of agricultural products, small business development, rural economic development, job creation, education, crime prevention and health care during his time in office. He is a graduate of Mankato State University and Harvard University.

While in the legislature, Beckman was a member of the Senate Agriculture, Crime Prevention, Economic Development and Housing, Education, Employment, Energy and Community Development, Finance, Government Operations and Reform, Jobs, and Veterans  committees, and of various sub-committees relevant to each area.

Beckman ran for Congress against incumbent Gil Gutknecht in 1998 in Minnesota's old 1st Congressional District. Prior to the current re-districting, the district encompassed most of southeastern Minnesota and was a heavily Republican area.  Beckman received 45% of the vote to Gutknecht's 55% in the November general election.

In February 1999, Beckman resigned his Senate seat after he was appointed Minnesota State Director of the Farm Service Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

References

External links

1945 births
Living people
Democratic Party Minnesota state senators
People from Faribault County, Minnesota
American Lutherans
Harvard University alumni

Tracy Beckman


A militia is a group of people who are not in the standing army or regular military but do many military tasks such as collecting weapons, training soldiers, defending people or land and policing an area. Militias are often made up of veterans, who used to be in the military.

Some militias, like the United States National Guard, are organized by a government. It is a group of state militias that help with wars, natural disasters and other emergencies. Others are not connected to a government and may even be illegal. One common definition of a militia includes all men who can serve as soldiers.

In the early late 20th century, some militias acted as professional forces but were still "part-time" or "on-call" organizations.

Military

Militia


The Only Story is a novel by Julian Barnes. It is his thirteenth novel, and was published on 1 February 2018.

Plot
The short (273 pp.) novel is the life story of Paul Roberts, who we first meet as a 19-year-old Sussex University undergraduate returning to his parents' house in the leafy southern suburbs of London (Sutton, in Surrey, is suggested as a model.) The time is the early sixties, and there are a few references to current events. Paul joins the tennis club, which is the one of the few opportunities such places offer for socialising. In a random-draw mixed doubles, he is thrown together with Susan MacLeod, a 48-year-old married woman with two daughters older than Paul. Paul and Susan become lovers and she eventually leaves her family to set up house with Paul in South London. Having nothing to do but a little housekeeping, Susan soon descends into alcoholism and, years later, to dementia. Paul departs and embarks on foreign travels, picking up jobs and women at random.

As Paul narrates his life in this book, he freely admits that memory is unreliable and he may not be telling us the truth.

Characters
Paul Roberts, the protagonist
Susan Macleod, the older woman who later becomes an alcoholic
Gordon MacLeod, Susan's husband who she nicknames "Elephant pants"
Martha and Clara MacLeod, Susan's daughters. Paul refers to them, respectively, as "Miss G." (Miss Grumpy) and "Miss N.S." (Miss Not So Grumpy)
Joan, Susan's former tennis partner, a forlorn and cynical character whose ambition in life has been reduced to finding the cheapest bottle of gin within driving distance
Eric, Paul's best friend from university
Anna, a later girlfriend

Major theme
Paul agonises about the nature of love, even going so far as to keep a notebook of sayings on the subject. He concludes that pain is an inevitable concomitant of love, and wonders if he'd have been happier if he'd loved less, and presumably therefore brought less pain on himself and Susan.

Style
The book has no conventional chapters but is split into three parts, simply labelled "One, Two, Three". Part One is the boy-meets-woman narrative, told in the first person. Part Two, told in a mixture of first and second person, is the decline of the love affair, and Part Three is the rest of Paul's life told mostly in a mix of second and third person. In the last few pages, as Paul says his final goodbye to Susan, now sedated in a psychiatric hospital, he reverts to the first person.

References

English novels
2018 British novels
Novels by Julian Barnes
Fiction with unreliable narrators
Novels about alcoholism
Jonathan Cape books

The Only Story


Herman P. Schwan (7 August 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a biomedical engineer and biophysicist, recognized as the "founding father of biomedical engineering." He was born in Aachen, Germany, and died in his home Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Biography

Schwan was born from a science-influenced family. His father Wilhelm Schwan was a science and mathematics teacher, and mother Meta was a physics teacher. He invariably excelled in physics and mathematics and
graduated from gymnasium (German high school) at Göttingen in distinction in 1934. He continued to study mathematics, physics, and engineering in Göttingen, and then biophysics in Frankfurt. He received PhD degrees in physics and biophysics in 1940 and 1946 from the University of Frankfurt-am-Main. He was with the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt from 1937 to 1947. In 1947 he emigrated to America, where he joined the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine.

Professional Achievements

During his career Schwan did much to improve the emerging field of biomedical engineering, developed its first PhD program, and produced more than 300 technical papers and gave countless lectures. He is best known for many biophysical studies related to electrical properties of cells and tissues, and on non-thermal mechanisms of interaction of fields with biological systems. He innovative works include the large low-frequency dielectric dispersion that is found in biological material, and electrically induced forces on cells. He was the pioneer in recognizing the possible health hazards of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields. He proposed a safe limit for human exposure to microwave energy of 100 W/m2 (based on thermal analysis) to the U.S. Navy in 1953, which became the basis for the present IEEE C95.1 safety standards used in the western world.

Awards and honors

Schwan received the 1962 Philadelphia Section Achievement Award of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the 1967 W. J. Morlock Award of the IEEE, the 1974 Boris Rajewsky Prize for Biophysics, the 1980 U.S. Senior Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

He was a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS. He received the 1983 IEEE Edison Medal, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Foreign Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.

In 1985 he was awarded the first d'Arsonval Award of the Bioelectromagnetics Society.

The Herman P. Schwan prize of the International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance (ICEBE) and the International Society for Electrical Bioimpedance (ISEBI) was initiated in 2001 in his honour and is awarded once every three years. The Herman P. Schwan Award has been presented to: dr. Ron Pethig (United Kingdom, 2001); dr. Brian Brown (United Kingdom, 2004); dr. Eberhardt Gersing (Germany, 2007); dr. Sverre Grimnes (Norway, 2010); dr. David Holder (United Kingdom, 2013); dr. Jan H. Meijer (the Netherlands, 2016).

References

External links
 IEEE History Center biography
 Herman P. Schwan's obituary
 The International Society for Electrical Bioimpedance

1915 births
2005 deaths
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Emigrants from Allied-occupied Germany to the United States

Herman P. Schwan


The Hellfire Club is a 1961 film inspired by the historical Hellfire Club, Sir Francis Dashwood's infamous 'Gentlemen's' society of the 18th century. It starred Keith Michell and featured Peter Cushing in a small cameo as enigmatic attorney Mr Merryweather.

According to the film, the club was famed for its depravity, debauchery, and devil worship. Although not a Hammer Films production, there are visual similarities. The script was co-written by Jimmy Sangster, and co-stars Hammer regulars Miles Malleson and Francis Matthews.

Cast
Keith Michell as Jason
Adrienne Corri as Isobel
Peter Cushing as Merryweather
Peter Arne as Thomas
Kai Fischer as Yvonne
David Lodge as Timothy
Bill Owen as Martin
Miles Malleson as Judge
Martin Stephens as Jason as a Boy
Andrew Faulds as Lord Netherden
Jean Lodge as Lady Netherden
Francis Matthews as Sir Hugh Manning
Desmond Walter-Ellis as Lord Chorley
Denis Shaw as Sir Richard
Tutte Lemkow as Higgins

External links

1961 films
British historical adventure films
1960s historical adventure films
Films directed by Robert S. Baker
Films directed by Monty Berman
Films scored by Clifton Parker
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
Films set in the 1760s
Films with screenplays by Jimmy Sangster
1960s English-language films
1960s British films

The Hellfire Club (film)


Bertha Katscher (also spelled, Berta; pseudonyms: Ludwig Ungar, Albert Kellner, Ludwig Kölle, Ludmilla Kölle; 12 June 1860 – 16 September 1903) was an Austrian Empire-born Hungarian writer.

Biography
Katscher was born at Trencín, Slovakia, June 12, 1860, to an affluent Jewish family. She was educated by her aunt, by whom she was taken to Herzegovina, where in 1881 she was married to her cousin, Leopold Katscher, the writer and peace activist. Up to this time she had been occupied mostly with household affairs, but at the wish of her husband, she embarked on a literary career. Her first attempts were fairy-tales for children, but she soon turned her efforts to the advocacy of universal peace and various economic reforms. She wrote also against cruelty to animals. She contributed articles on a great variety of subjects to the "Frankfurter Zeitung," the "Wiener Mode," "Die Heimat," "Münchener Allgemeine Zeitung," "Kölnische Zeitung," "Prochaska's Monatsbände," etc. Her first work in book form was "Die Kunst ein Mensch zu Sein," written in 1887 with Edward John Hardy. Her other works included: "Weinachtsgeschichte" (1890); "Aus Bädern und Sommerfrischen" (1890); "Hermann Vámbérys Leben und Reiseabenteuer" (1892); "Soldatenkinder," a romance of universal peace (1897); "Die Studentin" (1900); and "Der Stychoos" (1901). She also translated English literature into German, such as the novels by Hardy, Donnelly, Boyesen, Meadows, Stevenson, and Buckley.

Katscher had been operated upon twice for cancer of the right breast. Shortly after the second operation, she consulted, for blindness of the left eye, Dr. Wilhelm Goldzieher, of Budapest, who sent her to Dr. Adamkiewicz with a diagnosis of cancerous infiltration of the choroid and partial detachment of the retina. This diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Sachs, assistant in the ophthalmological clinic of the University of Vienna. Sachs also followed up his ophthalmoscopic examinations during the treatment by cancroine, and certified to actual resorption of a cancerous process and restoration of vision to two thirds of normal. The conditions in the breast cicatrix were also improved.

The feminist and pacifist, Rosika Schwimmer, was her niece. Rosika Schwimmer's mother was also named Berta, but she was the sister of Leopold and this Berta Katscher was the wife of Leopold. Katscher died in Budapest in 1903.

References

Source attribution

Bibliography

1860 births
1903 deaths
People from Trenčín
Hungarian children's writers
Hungarian women children's writers
Slovak children's writers
Slovak women children's writers
Jewish women writers
19th-century Hungarian women writers
19th-century Slovak women writers
Writers from Austria-Hungary

Bertha Katscher


Jean Hugard (4 December 1871 - 14 August 1959) was an Australian professional magician.

History
Hugard was born John Gerard Rodney Boyce in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the third son of John Alexander Boyce and Anne Brown. Educated at Toowoomba Grammar School, later he joined the staff of the Queensland National bank. After a late start and from a completely non-theatrical background he rose to become one of the world's great stage magicians, often dubbed the Dean of Magicians, and the last of a trio (Robert-Houdin, Hoffman, Hugard) of famed authors on the art of legerdemain.

Over the course of his life he performed as Oscar Kellmann, Chin Sun Loo, Ching Ling Foo, and Jean Hugarde. He was inspired in 1880 seeing a Haselmayer show. He eventually began his professional career in 1896.

In 1898 Gerard left the bank, and with several partners founded Burketown's Endeavour Meatworks (producing tinned beef) to solve the problem of getting Gulf Country cattle to market. The venture was a roaring success for several years, however drought, economic recession and some lack of expertise in the art of tinning ruined the meatworks venture, and Gerard returned to Toowoomba to a series of temporary jobs, including a stint as secretary of the Toowoomba General Hospital. In that capacity he organised entertainments to raise funds, including himself on the bill as an increasingly expert conjurer.

Finally he deserted his wife and family in 1912, and in 1915 he moved to the US and worked in vaudeville from 1916 until 1918. One of his feature attractions then was "Birth of the Sea Nymph."

One of his full evening shows presented on tour in Australia and New Zealand was a silent Chinese act. He also was known for his bullet catch routine he called "The Great Rifle Feat". He was the first to present it with modern-day guns at the time.

He owned and performed in a magic theater in Luna Park (at Coney Island) from 1919–1929. He also appeared in a Broadway Show in 1928 at the Forrest Theater called "The Squealer."

When he retired from performing, he moved to Brooklyn to write and edit magic publications. He wrote more than 30 books on magic. Upon the death of John Northern Hilliard, who had written about 50 percent of his book Greater Magic, a lot of manuscript was left to be completed. Carl Waring Jones, who had contracted for its publication, hired Jean Hugard in 1938 to complete and enlarge the text to over 1,000 pages. The book went on to become a standard textbook of magic, which author Henry Hay called "one of the best and largest books ever written about magic."

He was editor of Hugard's Magic Monthly starting in 1943. He was also named the fourth ever Society of American Magicians, Dean of Magicians in 1951. Near the end of his life, Hugard was blind, having lost the sight of both eyes following operations for the removal of cataracts. In spite of this handicap he continued to work in the magic field at his home in Brooklyn, NY.

He died in the United States in 1959 at the age of 87 and known far and wide as The Great Hugard. The New York Herald Tribune published a double column obituary with photograph – the sort of space usually reserved for statesman or movie stars.

Publications

 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (with J. J. Crimmins)
 Card Manipulations N° 1 & 2 (1933)
 Card Manipulations N° 3 (1934)
 Card Manipulations N° 4 (1935)
 Mental Magic with Cards (1935)
 Coin Magic (1935)
 Card Manipulations N° 5 (1936)
 Thimble Magic (1936)
 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937)
 Money Magic (1937)
 Silken Sorcery (1937)
 Close-up Magic (1938)
 More Card Manipulations N° 1 (1938)
 More Card Manipulations N° 2 (1939)
 Modern Magic Manual (1939) (introduction by Julien Proskauer)
 More Card manipualtions N° 3 (1940)
 More Card manipulations N° 4 (1941)
 Sealed Mysteries of Pocket Magic (1943)
 Expert Card Technique (1940) (with Frederick Braue)
 The Stripper Deck - Miracle Methods No. 1 (1941) (with Frederick Braue)
 Miracle Shuffles and Tricks - Miracle Methods No. 2 (1942) (with Frederick Braue)
 Prepared Cards and Accessories - Miracle Methods No. 3 (1942) (with Frederick Braue)
 Tricks and Sleights - Miracle Methods No. 4 (1943) (with Frederick Braue)
 The Invisible Pass (1946) (with Frederick Braue)
 Show Stoppers with Cards (1948) (with Frederick Braue)
 Royal Road to Card Magic (1948) (with Frederick Braue)
 Houdini's "Unmasking": Fact Vs. Fiction (1957)

Biographies

  (1997) - Looks at the life and career of an accomplished magician who worked during the 1930s and 1940s, and his influence on the performance of magic during his day.

Awards and honors
  Selected to the Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame.
 Magic Circle's highest award, the Silver Wand
 "Milbourne Christopher Award," a plaque that Walt Rollins gave each year in the memory of his son Chipper, to the magician who has done most in the advancement of "brotherly love."
 International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 136 (Brisbane, Australia) is named in his honor.
 International Brotherhood of Magicians honorary life member

See also
List of magicians

References

External links

Jean Hugard Biography
What the hell was Hugard thinking?
Jean Hugard on the Pass
Hugard & Braue: Royal Road to Card Magic table of contents

1872 births
1959 deaths
Australian magicians
Card magic
Sleight of hand
Vaudeville performers
People from Toowoomba

Jean Hugard


L-694247 is a somewhat selective 5-HT1D agonist, with a 10-fold greater affinity for the 5-HT1B receptor, and 25-fold greater affinity for the 5-HT1A receptor. When L-694247 was injected intraventricularly in dehydrated rats, it inhibited water intake. Pre-treatment with a 5-HT1D antagonist abolished this effect. Administration of L-694,247 to normally hydrated rats had no effect on water intake.

References

Serotonin receptor agonists
Sulfonamides
Tryptamines
Oxadiazoles
5-HT1D agonists

L-694247


The Tir na n-Og Awards (abbreviated TnaO) are a set of annual children's literary awards in Wales from 1976. They are presented by the Books Council of Wales to the best books published during the preceding calendar year in each of three awards categories, one English-language and two Welsh-language. Their purpose is "[to raise] the standard of children's and young people's books and to encourage the buying and reading of good books." There is no restriction to fiction or prose. Each prize is £1,000.

The awards are named for Tír na nÓg, the "Land of the Young", an otherworldly realm in Irish mythology.

The English-language award honours one book with an "authentic Welsh background" whose original language is English. It is sponsored by the British Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Cymru Wales division (CILIP/Wales), and presented at that association's annual conference in May.

The Welsh-language Primary Sector and Secondary Sector awards honour one book written for primary school children and one for secondary school children.
They are presented at the annual Urdd National Eisteddfod, recently at the beginning of June or end of May.
Since 2011, the Welsh-language awards are co-sponsored by the Cardigan-based publisher Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion.

Shortlists comprising three or four books in each awards category have been published by BCW at least from 2011.

Recent awards

2019

The 2018/2019 cycle was completed by announcements of the English-language winner on 16 May 2019 and the two Welsh-language winners at the Urdd National Eisteddfod on 30 May.

The primary sector award went to Elin Meek and Valériane Leblond for Cymru ar y Map, a lavishly illustrated picture atlas of Wales, published by Rily Publications.

The secondary sector award went to Manon Steffan Ros for Fi a Joe Allen, a football novel about a fan following the Welsh team to France, published by Y Lolfa.

The English-language award was presented to Catherine Fisher for The Clockwork Crow, a tale of enchantment involving Welsh folklore and set in a snowy Welsh landscape, published by Firefly Press.

2016

The 2015/2016 cycle was completed by announcements of the English-language winner on 26 May 2016 and the two Welsh-language winners at the Urdd National Eisteddfod on 2 June. Three shortlists of three or four books had been announced in March.

The primary sector award went to Sian Lewis and Valériane Leblond for Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi, a retelling of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, published by Rily Publications.

The secondary sector award went to Llyr Titus for Gwalia, a space travel adventure, published by Gomer Press.

The English-language award was presented to Griff Rowland for The Search For Mister Lloyd, about a Welsh boy's search for his missing racing pigeon, published by Candy Jar Books.

2015
The 2014/2015 cycle was completed by announcements of the English-language winner on 14 May 2015 and the two Welsh-language winners at the Urdd National Eisteddfod on 28 May. Three shortlists of three or four books had been announced 26 March.

The primary sector award went to Caryl Lewis for Straeon Gorau'r Byd, a collection of stories from all over the world, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.

The secondary sector award went to Gareth F. Williams for Y Gêm, a novel about football and friendship centred on events of the First World War, notably the Christmas truce, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.

The English-language award was presented on 14 May 2015 at Swansea Central Library to Giancarlo Gemin for Cowgirl, a story of two very different girls in contemporary south Wales, published by Nosy Crow.

2014
The 2013/2014 cycle was completed 29 May 2014 at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Pembrokeshire with the presentation of the two Welsh-language awards.

The primary sector award went to Gareth F. Williams for Cwmwl dros y Cwm, a historical novel set in Senghenydd in South Wales at the time of the disastrous colliery explosion in 1913, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.

The secondary sector award went to Haf Llewelyn for Diffodd y Sêr, a historical novel about the family of Welsh poet Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), who died at Passchendaele, published by Y Lolfa.

The English-language award was presented 15 May 2014 at Cardiff Central Library to Wendy White for Welsh Cakes and Custard, family-based stories about two young children in contemporary Wales, published by Gomer Press.

2013
The 2012/2013 cycle was completed 30 May 2013 at the Urdd National Eisteddfod with the presentation of the two Welsh-language awards.

The primary sector award went to Iolo Williams and Bethan Wyn Jones for Cynefin yr Ardd, a book about garden wildlife, published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.

The secondary sector award went to Alun Wyn Bevan for Y Gêmau Olympaidd a Champau'r Cymry, a celebration of the Olympic Games with emphasis on the Welsh connection, published by Gomer Press.

The English-language award was presented 16 May 2013 at Cardiff Central Library to Cwmbran-born Daniel Morden for Tree of Leaf and Flame, a collection of stories retelling the Mabinogion, illustrated by Brett Breckon and published by Pont Books. He won the same award in 2007 for Dark Tales from the Woods.

Winners

There was a single Welsh-language award from 1976 to 1986, followed by dual fiction and nonfiction awards from 1987 to 2005, dual Primary and Secondary awards from 2006. There has been one English-language award throughout.

All three awards have been conferred every year from 1994. Previously seven English awards and one Welsh award were withheld.

2019
 English-language: The Clockwork Crow, Catherine Fisher (her 2nd TnO Award)
 Welsh, Primary: Cymru ar y Map, Elin Meek and Valériane Leblond  (Leblond's 2nd TnO Award)
 Welsh, Secondary: Fi a Joe Allen, Manon Steffan Ros  (her 4th TnO Award)

2018
 English-language: The Nearest Faraway Place, Hayley Long
 Welsh, Primary: Dosbarth Miss Prydderch a'r Carped Hud, Mererid Hopwood (her 2nd TnO Award)
 Welsh, Secondary: Mae'r Lleuad ynGoch, Myrddin ap Dafydd (his 2nd TnO Award)

2017
 English-language: Sweet Pizza, Giancarlo Gemin (his 2nd TnO Award)
 Welsh, Primary: ABC Byd Natur, Luned Aaron
 Welsh, Secondary: Pluen, Manon Steffan Ros (her 3rd TnO Award)

2016
 English-language: The Search for Mister Lloyd, Griff Rowland
 Welsh, Primary: Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi, Siân Lewis (her 2nd TnO Award), illustrated by Valeriane Leblond
 Welsh, Secondary: Gwalia, Llŷr Titus

2015
 English-language: Cowgirl, Giancarlo Gemin
 Welsh, Primary: Straeon Gorau'r Byd, Caryl Lewis (her 2nd TnO Award)
 Welsh, Secondary: Y Gêm, Gareth F. Williams  (his 6th TnO Award)

2014
 English-language: Welsh Cakes and Custard, Wendy White, illustrated by Helen Flook
 Welsh, Primary: Cwmwl dros y Cwm, Gareth F. Williams (his 5th TnO Award)
 Welsh, Secondary: Diffodd y Sêr, Haf Llewelyn

2013
 English-language: Tree of Leaf and Flame, Daniel Morden
 Welsh, Primary: Cynefin yr Ardd, Iolo Williams and Bethan Wyn Jones
 Welsh, Secondary: Y Gêmau Olympaidd a Champau'r Cymry, Alun Wyn Bevan

2012
 English-language: Full Moon, Jenny Sullivan
 Welsh, Primary: Prism, Manon Steffan Ros
 Welsh, Secondary: Yr Alarch Du, Rhiannon Wyn

2011
 English-language:  Three Little Sheep, Rob Lewis
 Welsh, Primary: Dirgelwch y Bont, Hywel Griffiths
 Welsh, Secondary: Stwff Guto S. Tomos, Lleucu Roberts

2010
 English-language: Dear Mr Author, Paul Manship
 Welsh, Primary: Trwy'r Tonnau, Manon Steffan Ros
 Welsh, Secondary: Codi Bwganod, Rhiannon Wyn

2009
 English-language: Merlin's Magical Creatures, Graham Howells
 Welsh, Primary: Bownsio, Emily Huws
 Welsh, Secondary: Annwyl Smotyn Bach, Lleucu Roberts

2008
 English-language: Finding Minerva, Frances Thomas
 Welsh, Primary: Y Llyfr Ryseitiau: Gwaed y Tylwyth, Nicholas Daniels
 Welsh, Secondary: Eira Mân, Eira Mawr, Gareth F. Williams

2007
 English-language: Dark Tales from the Woods, Daniel Morden
 Welsh, Primary: Ein Rhyfel Ni, Mair Wynn Hughes
 Welsh, Secondary: Adref Heb Elin, Gareth F. Williams

2006
 English-language: Tirion's Secret Journal, Jenny Sullivan
 Welsh, Primary: Carreg Ateb, Emily Huws
 Welsh, Secondary: Creadyn, Gwion Hallam

Before 2006 the dual Welsh-language awards recognised fiction and nonfiction books.
2005
 English-language: The Seal Children, Jackie Morris
 Welsh, Fiction: Eco, Emily Huws
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Byd Llawn Hud, Ceri Wyn Jones, Tudur Dylan, Mererid Hopwood, Sonia Edwards and Elinor Wyn Reynold
2004
 English-language: The Battle of Mametz Wood, 1916, Robert Phillips
 Welsh, Fiction: Iawn Boi?, Caryl Lewis
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Stori Dafydd ap Gwilym, Gwyn Thomas & Margaret Jones
2003
 English-language: Cold Jac, Rob Lewis
 Welsh, Fiction: Sgôr, Bethan Gwanas
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Dewi Sant, Rhiannon Ifans & Margaret Jones
2002
 English-language: Georgie, Malachy Doyle
 Welsh, Fiction: Gwirioni, Shoned Wyn Jones
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Poeth! Cerddi Poeth ac Oer, Non ap Emlyn & Marian Delyth
2001
 English-language: The Seeing Stone, Kevin Crossley-Holland
 Welsh, Fiction: Llinyn Trôns, Bethan Gwanas
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Jam Coch Mewn Pwdin Reis, Myrddin ap Dafydd
2000
 English-language: Artworks On ... Interiors, Jo Dahn & Justine Baldwin
 Welsh, Fiction: Ta Ta-Tryweryn, Gwenno Hughes
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Chwedlau o'r Gwledydd Celtaidd, Rhiannon Ifans & Margaret Jones

1999
 English-language: Rhian's Song, Gillian Drake
 Welsh, Fiction: Pam Fi Eto, Duw?, John Owen
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Byw a Bod yn y Bàth, Lis Jones
1998
 English-language: Alwena's Garden, Mary Oldham
 Welsh, Fiction: Dyddiau Cŵn, Gwen Redvers Jones
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Stori Branwen, Tegwyn Jones & Jac Jones
1997
 English-language: Cities in the Sea, Siân Lewis & Jackie Morris
 Welsh, Fiction: Ydy Fe!, John Owen
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Dirgelwch Loch Ness, Gareth F. Williams
1996
 English-language: Who's Afraid of the Bwgan-wood?, Anne Lewis
 Welsh, Fiction: Coch yw Lliw Hunllef, Mair Wynn Hughes
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Sbectol Inc, Eleri Ellis Jones & Marian Delyth
1995
 English-language: The Candle Man, Catherine Fisher
 Welsh, Fiction: Pam Fi, Duw, Pam Fi?, John Owen
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Geiriadur Gomer i'r Ifanc, D Geraint Lewis
1994
 English-language: Denny and the Magic Pool, Pamela Purnell
 Welsh, Fiction: Sothach a Sglyfath, Angharad Tomos
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Cristion Ydw I, Huw John Hughes & Rheinallt Thomas
1993
 English-language: Award withheld
 Welsh, Fiction: 'Tisio Tshipsan?, Emily Huws
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Chwedl Taliesin, Gwyn Thomas & Margaret Jones
1992
 English-language: Who Stole a Bloater?, Frances Thomas
 Welsh, Fiction: joint winners:
 Wmffra, Emily Huws
 Broc Môr, Gwen Redvers Jones
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Yn y Dechreuad, Robert M. Morris & Catrin Stephens
1991
 English-language: Award withheld
 Welsh, Fiction:  O Ddawns i Ddawns, Gareth F. Williams
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Cymru Ddoe a Heddiw, Geraint H. Jenkins
1990
 English-language: Award withheld
 Welsh, Fiction: Llygedyn o Heulwen, Mair Wynn Hughes
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Lleuad yn Olau, T. Llew Jones & Jac Jones

1989
 English-language: Award withheld
 Welsh, Fiction: joint winners:
 Liw, Irma Chilton
 Ben y Garddwr a Storïau Eraill, Jac Jones
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Culhwch ac Olwen, Gwyn Thomas & Margaret Jones —a retelling of Culhwch and Olwen
1988
 English-language: Steel Town Cats, Celia Lucas
 Welsh, Fiction: 'Tydi Bywyd yn Boen!, Gwenno Hywyn
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Yr Atlas Cymraeg, Dafydd Orwig (editor)
1987
 English-language: The Snow Spider, Jenny Nimmo
 Welsh, Fiction: Jabas, Penri Jones
 Welsh, Nonfiction: Gardd o Gerddi, Alun Jones & John Pinion Jones

Before 1987 there were only two awards, one for English- and one for Welsh-language books.
1986
 English: Region of the Summer Stars, Frances Thomas
 Welsh: Y Llipryn Llwyd, Angharad Tomos
1985
 Awards withheld
1984
 English: The Prize, Irma Chilton
 Welsh: joint winners:
Y Llinyn Arian, Mair Wynn Hughes
Herio'r Cestyll, Malcolm M. Jones, Cyril Jones & Gwen Redvers Jones
1983
 English: Bluestones, Mary John
 Welsh: Croes Bren yn Norwy, J. Selwyn Lloyd
1982
 English: Award withheld
 Welsh: Gaeaf y Cerrig, Gweneth Lilly
1981
 English: The Blindfold Track, Frances Thomas
 Welsh: Y Drudwy Dewr, Gweneth Lilly
1980
 English: Award withheld
 Welsh: Y Llong, Irma Chilton

1979
 English: Time Circles, Bette Meyrick
 Welsh: Y Flwyddyn Honno, Dyddgu Owen
1978
 English: Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper
 Welsh: Miriam, Jane Edwards
1977
 English: A String in the Harp, Nancy Bond
 Welsh: Trysor Bryniau Caspar, J. Selwyn Lloyd
1976
 English: The Grey King, Susan Cooper
 Welsh: Tân ar y Comin, T. Llew Jones

Winners of multiple awards

Pont Books, the children's imprint of Gomer Press (Gwasg Gomer), has published the last nine books to win the English award, 2006 to 2014. Gwasg Gomer has also published five winners of Welsh awards during that time. Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont published six of the eight books to win the Welsh-language awards, 2009 to 2012.

Several authors have won two awards, including all three winners in 2012 and both winners of the first awards in 1976, Susan Cooper and T. Llew Jones.

For the inaugural English Award-winning novel, The Grey King (1975), Cooper also won the Newbery Medal recognising the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". She won the third English Award in 1978 for its sequel, Silver on the Tree, the concluding Dark is Rising novel. For that series, in April 2012 she won the annual American Library Association lifetime award for "lasting contribution to young adult literature", the Margaret A. Edwards Award.

See also

References

External links
 Awards and Prizes at Welsh Books Council Children's Book Promotion
 www.gwales.com – said to provide "full details and reviews" of the nine 2014 shortlist works

Welsh literary awards
Welsh-language literature
Welsh children's literature
British children's literary awards
Awards established in 1976
1976 establishments in the United Kingdom
English-language literary awards
Welsh-language literary awards

Tir na n-Og Award


K-Ville (an abbreviation of Katrinaville) is an American crime drama television series that aired from September 17 to December 17, 2007, on Fox, created by executive producer Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Deran Sarafian directed the pilot.

On May 15, 2008, the series was canceled.

Production notes
The pilot episode was written by Lisco (who also served as executive producer), directed by Deran Sarafian, and stars Anthony Anderson as Marlin Boulet and Cole Hauser as Trevor Cobb, partners who "have conflicting ideas about how to handle the city's problems." The pilot also features John Carroll Lynch, Tawny Cypress and Blake Shields.

The first episode featured a 1970 Pontiac Catalina as the getaway car early in the show.

The show had permission to use the official New Orleans Police Department logos, particularly the unique "star and crescent" badge design, and was filmed on location in the city in March and April 2007. According to the NOPD's public integrity bureau, the production emphasizes the "good work that the men and the women of the Police Department performed [after Katrina], which was not portrayed by much of the media."

Lisco, a former lawyer who has previously written scripts for The District and NYPD Blue, did several ride-alongs with the New Orleans Police Department before writing a script for the pilot. It was during one such ride-along that he spotted some graffiti sporting the shorthand for "Katrinaville" that became the show's title.

In order to promote the series, Fox made the pilot episode available for streaming on a number of television media websites on August 22, 2007.

Due to the Writers Guild of America strike, K-Ville shut down production, and only 11 of the 13 episodes were produced. The show did not appear on Fox's midseason schedule.

Cast and characters
Anthony Anderson as Marlin Boulet
Cole Hauser as Trevor Cobb
Tawny Cypress as Ginger "Love Tap" LeBeau
Blake Shields as Jeff Gooden
John Carroll Lynch as Capt. James Embry
Maximiliano Hernandez as Billy Faust

Broadcast history
Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the series was officially greenlit and given a thirteen-episode order on May 11, 2007. It premiered on September 17, 2007, on Fox,  and was also broadcast by Fox8 and Channel Ten in Australia, E! in Canada and Five USA in the UK.

Episodes

U.S. Nielsen weekly ratings

References

External links
 Official Site

2000s American crime drama television series
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
American action television series
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Serial drama television series
Television series about Hurricane Katrina
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Television shows set in New Orleans
Fictional portrayals of the New Orleans Police Department

K-Ville (TV series)


The Island God is a one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti with a libretto by the composer.  It was first performed on February 20, 1942, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Although the opera's only performances were in English, Menotti wrote the libretto in Italian (as Ilo e Zeus).

Performance history
The Island God received four performances at the Metropolitan Opera, appearing on double bills with Pagliacci and La bohème.  Although the cast included Leonard Warren as Ilo and Astrid Varnay as Telea, the opera was not a success.  Reviewing the opera in Musical America, Oscar Thompson called it "more effective as a literary conception than something of opera."  Menotti was dissatisfied with the opera's staging and began demanding greater input on productions of his works.

The Island God has not been performed since its premiere; Menotti reportedly destroyed all copies of the score.  In a 1996 interview, Menotti dismissed the opera as "a big bore."  When asked about a revival, he replied, "I'll never give you that torment."

Roles

Synopsis
Ilo, a fisherman, and his wife Telea arrive on a deserted island, where they discover a ruined temple.  When Ilo gives thanks to the temple's god for his safe arrival, the god comes to life and orders Ilo to rebuild the temple.

While Ilo is absorbed in his work, another fisherman, Luca, arrives on the island.  He and Telea quickly fall in love and make plans to flee the island.  When Ilo discovers the plan, Luca and Telea trap him in a fishing net and escape.

Believing that the god has abandoned him, Ilo destroys the temple.  The god then kills Ilo, only to perish because no one is left to worship him.

References

Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti
Operas
1942 operas
One-act operas
Opera world premieres at the Metropolitan Opera

The Island God


Norton Bay (Kaŋiiqusuk in Inupiaq) is a waterway classified bay located on the northeastern part of the Norton Sound, on the Seward Peninsula in the Nome Census Area of the Bering Sea of the U.S. state of Alaska. The mouths of several rivers debouch at Norton Bay, including the Kwik, Kwiniuk, and Tubutulik rivers.

The name Norton was assigned in 1859 by the Coast Survey. Norton Bay and Norton Sound were discovered as one entity by Captain James Cook in 1778, and named after Sir Fletcher Norton (who later became Lord Grantley), who was the speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain.

Geography
The north shore of the bay is in front of the Kwiktalik Mountain () in Seaward Peninsula. The Reindeer Hills lie on the Southhead of the Bay. Cape Nome is at the entrance to the bay. Circa 1902, there were several Alaska Native villages on the northern shore of the Norton Bay: Kviguk and Kwik villages. The streams joining the north shore of the bay are Kvingak, Kwik, Kwiniuk, and also Tubutulik River (an Inuktitut name given in 1849 by Temenkof). Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov was the director of the Russian American Company and Governor of Russian America during 1845–50. In 1831, he visited the Norton Sound and discovered the bay that bears his name.

Geology
The inference, based on field studies, is that the Nulato-Norton Bay region evolved during the Cretaceous period. It is seen in the form of old deposits of conglomerates, sandstone and shales in the middle of the basin.

Placer gold
Placer gold deposits are very few in the Nulato-Norton Bay area in some pockets of Cretaceous and Tertiary deposits as compared to the finds in the Nome area. Some of the streams such as the Kwintuk, Tubutulik and Kwik which flow into the bay have placer gold and the sediment flow discharged into the bay could also be a source of gold in the bay.

Aqua fauna
Marine and other species reported from the bay have been a source of sustenance for the people of the area. The species reported are tomcod (a small fish) and herring. The hair of the seals caught from the bay area were woven into a fur cloth and the skin of the ogruk, a thick skinned seal, was used for making footwear worn by the Mukluk inhabitants of the area. Walrus has also been found is during the spring season which are caught and used as food.

Landmarks

The National Historic Landmark Iyatayet site is located on the northwest shore of Cape Denbigh on Norton Bay. Its historicity lies in the fact the Norton Culture dated between 500 BC and 300 AD existed at this site, in stratified deposits above the Denbigh Flint Complex of 6000-4000 BC. Remnants of artifacts found here have further added to the relationship that existed with the cultures of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic ages.

In 1840, at the mouth of Ukaliik River, part of the Norton Bay, a fort and a trading town (named after the river) had been established.

Nature Reserve
The Norton Bay Nature Reserve was established in 1917 covering an area of about  for use by the US Bureau of Education and the Natives of the Indigenous Alaskan race. The area extends over a length of  to the south east of Nome and covers the coastal area of Norton Bay. This area has the burial grounds of a large number of Eskimo natives who died due to epidemic diseases.

See also
 Bering Straits Native Corporation, Alaska Native regional corporation that serves Norton Bay

References

Bibliography

Bays of Alaska
Bodies of water of Nome Census Area, Alaska
Bodies of water of the Seward Peninsula

Norton Bay


Adalelm (died 8 April 894) was the Count of Troyes from 886 to his death. He was a son of Emenon, Count of Poitou, and a Robertian.

He succeeded his maternal uncle Robert I, Count of Troyes, in 886. In 891, he organised the transferral of the abbey of Saint-Loup to within the walls of the town. In 893, he confirmed the donation of Chaource to the abbey of Montiéramey, made originally by his uncle. In 894, he and his brother Adhemar of Poitou attacked Aurillac, but he died fifteen days after.

He does not seem to have had any children by his wife Ermengard. Richard, Duke of Burgundy, profited from the troubles that followed his death to seize the county of Troyes.

Sources
de Saint Phalle, Édouard. "Comtes de Troyes et de Poitiers au IXe siècle: histoire d'un double échec." In Christian Settipani and Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval. 2000.

894 deaths
Counts of Troyes
Year of birth unknown

Adalelm, Count of Troyes


The Westall UFO was a reported UFO sighting in Australia that occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria.

Reports
At approximately 11:00 am on Wednesday, 6 April 1966, students and a teacher from Westall High School, now Westall Secondary College, reported seeing a flying object, described as a grey (or silvery-green) saucer-shaped craft with a slight purple hue and about twice the size of a family car. According to the students, the object was descending, overflew the high school, and disappeared behind a stand of trees. Approximately 20 minutes later the object reportedly reappeared, climbed at speed and departed towards the north-west. Some accounts describe the object as being pursued by five unidentified aircraft.

Explanations
Australian newspaper The Age described it as a weather balloon: "Object Perhaps Balloon – An unidentified flying object seen over the Clayton-Moorabbin area yesterday morning might have been a weather balloon. Hundreds of children and a number of teachers at Westall School, Clayton, watched the object during morning break. The Weather Bureau released a balloon at Laverton at 8:30 am and the westerly wind blowing at the time could have moved it into the area where the sighting was reported". The newspaper also said a number of small aeroplanes circled around it. However, a check later showed that no commercial, private, or RAAF pilots had reported anything unusual in the area.

According to Keith Basterfield, a runaway balloon from the HIBAL high-altitude balloon project used to monitor radiation levels after British nuclear tests at Maralinga is a likely explanation. Basterfield located documents in the National Archives and former Department of Supply indicating a test balloon launched from Mildura may have been blown off course "and came down in Clayton South in a paddock near Westall High School, alarming and baffling hundreds of eyewitnesses, including teachers and students". Basterfield said HIBAL balloons had a white silver appearance and featured a parachute and gas tube trailing from the top, which is consistent with witness descriptions of the object. There were also reports that after the incident, "men in suits" cautioned witnesses not to discuss details of the secret government exercise.

According to skeptic Brian Dunning, "the weather balloon is a likely explanation for the first half of the event". Dunning suggested a nylon target drogue, like a wind sock, towed by one plane for the others to chase and known to be in use by the local RAAF at the time, was "at least one very reasonable possibility for the second half". Dunning added, as years have passed, "descriptions of what was actually seen have now become diluted with made-up descriptions by an unknown number of students who didn't see anything, and there's no way to know which is which".

Media coverage
On 21 January 2016, Network 10's program Studio 10 screened a segment titled: "21 Jan – Melbourne UFO Mystery: 50 Years On" which included live interviews with witnesses who were children at the local school in suburban Melbourne in 1966.

The Phenomenon, a documentary film directed and co-produced by ufologist James Fox, includes content related to the Westall UFO case.

Local culture
A witness reunion was held at Westall Tennis Club Hall, on 8 April 2006, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the incident.
The City of Kingston created a children's play space, Grange Reserve UFO Park at The Grange Reserve in Clayton South Melway. The park features a silver UFO with red slides to reflect the 1966 Westall UFO Incident.

See also
 Australian Ufology
 Bass Strait Triangle
 Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
 List of UFO sightings
 Ariel School UFO incident

References

Further information

Westall '66: a suburban UFO mystery A MASS UFO SIGHTING A FORTY-FOUR YEAR CONSPIRACY. A MAN SEEKING THE TRUTH Film written By Rosie Jones, with Shane Ryan; Produced by Carmel Mcaloon

1960s in Melbourne
1966 in Australia
April 1966 events in Australia
Australian folklore
UFO sightings

Westall UFO


Bryan Baeumler (born 18 April 1974) is a Canadian television host on several HGTV/HGTV Canada shows. A former handyman and businessman, he translated those careers into a series of TV shows about home renovations in Canada and expanding to hotel renovations in the Bahamas. He has won a Gemini Award for his hosting and has published a book on home renovations.

Early life and education
Learning the trade from his father, an aircraft engineer, Baeumler spent his childhood summers constructing his family's cottage. At 14, Baeumler opened his own handyman business doing odd jobs for neighbors. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Business from the University of Western Ontario in 1996.

Business activity

Baeumler worked from 1995 to 2003 running an air-cargo business.

After working as a builder, he founded a construction company, which became Baeumler Quality Construction and Renovations Inc., of which he is president and CEO.

In 2011, Baeumler launched Baeumler Approved, a website that aids homeowners connect with home-service companies in Canada. Baeumler became the spokesperson of HeyBryan, a peer-to-peer mobile marketplace app that connects homeowners with home-service providers, in 2018.

In 2017 Bryan and his wife Sarah bought a defunct abandoned beachfront resort on South Andros, Bahamas, and renovated it into a new sustainable luxury resort, Caerula Mar Club, that opened in December 2019, that they own and operate. With the location in the Bahamas, the Baeumlers undertook actions for disaster relief in 2019 in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. Though the storm did not hit their resort, their employees were affected through friends and relations on the devastated islands further to the north.

Shows
Baeumler has been a host on several shows, including Disaster DIY, Disaster DIY: Cottage Edition, Leave It to Bryan, House of Bryan, Bryan Inc., and Island of Bryan.  He is also a judge on the HGTV show Canada's Handyman Challenge along with Mike Holmes and Scott McGillivray. With his wife, Sarah Baeumler, they co-lead in the Bryan Inc. show on HGTV Canada.

Disaster DIY

Disaster DIY is a show on HGTV Canada about "Do-It-Yourselfer"s who have failed at their own home renovations and are in desperate need of some on-the-job training. The show is hosted by Baeumler and directed by Craig Goodwill. The projects on the show take place within the Greater Toronto Area. The show ran from 2007 to 2011.

House of Bryan

House of Bryan is a series starring Baeumler's entire nuclear family, him, his wife, and their children; plus his apprentice, Adam. The series covers the construction of various homes that the Baeumlers live in, his dream home, country cottage, and forever home. It became the highest rated series ever on HGTV Canada in 2016. The show ran from 2010 to 2015.

Leave It to Bryan

Leave it to Bryan is a Canadian home renovation reality series hosted by Baeumler, which premiered in January 2012 on HGTV. The premise of the show is that the renovations most desired by a homeowner are not necessarily always the ones most urgently needed in the home. The show ran from 2012 to 2017, and was put on hiatus.

Bryan Inc. / Renovation Inc.

Bryan Inc. premiered on HGTV Canada in fall 2016, replacing House of Bryan on the schedule. The show focuses on Baeumler pairing with his wife to buy properties, renovate or replace (new build) the houses, and then sell them at a profit. In the first season, they buy two properties, one selected by each of them, and then Baeumler's construction company crews rebuild the homes, which they then sell. The show ran from 2016 to 2018, and went on hiatus with the start of Island of Bryan. After the success of Renovation Island (Island of Bryan) on HGTV USA, Bryan Inc. was licensed as Renovation, Inc. for U.S. HGTV in 2020.

Island of Bryan / Renovation Island

Island of Bryan is a TV show that premiered on HGTV Canada on 7 April 2019. The show follows the Baeumler family as they renovate a neglected 50-year-old hotel in the Bahamas. Due to the remote location of the resort, supplies only came in weekly and did not always come every week. The family was also living in the resort while they were renovating it. The show first aired in 2019. HGTV U.S. repackaged the show in June 2020 as Renovation Island for American audiences.

Renovation Resort / Renovation Resort Showdown
Renovation Resort is a TV show that premiered on HGTV Canada in spring 2023 (and in summer 2023 in the USA, as "Renovation Resort Showdown"). The show follows Scott McGillivray, who has purchased a lakeside resort. He enlists the help of Bryan Baeumler to help renovate the resort, similar to what the Baeumlers did on Island of Bryan / Renovation Island. The show will be a 7-episode competition series, featuring 4 teams of contractor-designer duos advised by McGillivray and Baeumler, who will renovate cabin-by-cabin competing head-to-head. The winning cabin will get the winning team the grand prize.

Bryan's All In
Bryan's All In is a TV show that premiered on HGTV Canada in fall 2023. The show's premise is that Bryan will help entrepreneurs renovate their businesses to get them off their feet, with a week of reno. The show is sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and has in-show sponsor material. The show fills a 60-minute timeslot fororiginal networks HGTV Canada and Stack.TV. The initial season would have 10 episodes.

Guest appearances
Bryan has made several guest appearances. Bryan was a judge on Canada's Handyman Challenge. He was also a judge on Deck Wars. Bryan was a guest builder on Home to Win.

Awards
Baeumler won the Gemini Award for "Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series" in 2008 for his presenting work on Disaster DIY.

Personal life
Baeumler and his wife Sarah (26 March 1978) have four children: Quintyn Werner, Charlotte Anne, Lincoln Wolfgang, and Josephine Judith.

During the time that the Baeumlers were living at Caerula Mar Resort renovating it (as seen on Island of Bryan), the children were at first home schooled. Then Quintyn was sent to a regional boarding school high school for a normal high school life, while the other three children were enrolled in a nearby Bahamian school. The extensive renovations at the resort put stress on Bryan's marriage with Sarah.

Published works
 Baeumler, Bryan. (2015) Measure Twice: Tips and Tricks from the Pros to Help You Avoid the Most Common DIY Disasters. paperback, 328 pages; HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; .

See also
 Paul LaFrance

Notes

References

External links

Official website
Hey Brian
Baeumler Construction

Living people
Appleby College alumni
Canadian television hosts
People from Oakville, Ontario
University of Western Ontario alumni
1974 births

Bryan Baeumler


The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) consists of a network of six remote solar observatories monitoring low-degree solar oscillation modes. It is operated by the High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy group of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK, in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, UK. They are funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

The BiSON has been collecting data continuously on solar oscillations since 1976, making it the longest running helioseismology network with data covering three solar cycles.

Team

Academic staff
 Professor Yvonne Elsworth (Head of project)
 Professor Bill Chaplin

Research staff
 Anne-Marie Broomhall — Helioseismology
 Andrea Miglio
 Steven Hale

Technical staff
 Mr Ian Barnes — Electronics
 Mr Barry Jackson — Mechanics

Remote observatories

BiSON operates automated resonant scattering spectrometers in astronomical domes or mirror fed systems. The network was established in 1976 with two permanent stations; the addition of several more sites culminated with the addition of a sixth in 1992. The current sites are:
 Mount Wilson Observatory, California, USA
 Las Campanas Observatory, Region IV, Chile
 Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
 South African Astronomical Observatory, Sutherland, South Africa
 OTC Earth Station Carnarvon, Carnarvon, WA, Australia
 Paul Wild Observatory, Narrabri, NSW, Australia

See also
 List of astronomical observatories
 List of astronomical societies

References

External links
 BiSON homepage
 BiSON Data
 Realtime BiSON Telemetry and Cameras

Telescopes
Science and technology in the United States
Science and technology in Chile
Scientific organisations based in Chile
Science and technology in Spain
Science and technology in South Africa
Science and technology in Australia
Astronomical observatories in Western Australia
Science and Technology Facilities Council

Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network


Apex radio stations (also known as skyscraper and pinnacle) was the name commonly given to a short-lived group of United States broadcasting stations, which were used to evaluate transmitting on frequencies that were much higher than the ones used by standard amplitude modulation (AM) and shortwave stations. Their name came from the tall height of their transmitter antennas, which were needed because coverage was primarily limited to local line-of-sight distances. These stations were assigned to what at the time were described as "ultra-high shortwave" frequencies, between roughly 25 and 44 MHz. They employed amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions, although in most cases using a wider bandwidth than standard broadcast band AM stations, in order to provide high fidelity sound with less static and distortion.

In 1937 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) formally allocated an Apex station band, consisting of 75 transmitting frequencies running from 41.02 to 43.98 MHz. These stations were never given permission to operate commercially, although they were allowed to retransmit programming from standard AM stations. Most operated under experimental licenses, however this band was the first to include a formal "non-commercial educational" station classification.

The FCC eventually concluded that frequency modulation (FM) transmissions were superior, and the Apex band was eliminated effective January 1, 1941, in order to make way for the creation of the original FM band, assigned to 42 to 50 MHz.

Initial development

During the 1920s and 1930s, radio engineers and government regulators investigated the characteristics of transmitting frequencies higher than those currently in use. In the United States, by 1930 the original AM broadcasting band consisted of 96 frequencies from 550 to 1500 kHz, with a 10 kHz spacing between adjacent assignments. On this band, a station's coverage during the daytime consisted exclusively of its groundwave signal, which for the most powerful stations might exceed 200 miles (320 kilometers), although it was significantly less for the average station. However, during the nighttime, changes in the ionosphere resulted in additional long distance skywave signals, that were commonly reflected for up to hundreds of kilometers.

Over time, technology was developed to transmit on progressively higher frequencies. (Although initially these were in general called "ultra-high shortwave" frequencies, radio spectrum nomenclature was later standardized, with 3 to 30 MHz transmissions becoming known as "High Frequency" (HF), 30 to 300 MHz called "Very High Frequency" (VHF), and 300 to 3,000 MHz called "Ultra High Frequency" (UHF)). It soon became apparent that there were significant differences in the propagation characteristics of various frequency ranges. Signals from shortwave stations, operating roughly in the range from 5 MHz to 20 MHz, were found to be readily reflected by the ionosphere during both the day and at night, resulting in stations that sometimes could transmit halfway around the world.

Investigations of increasingly higher frequencies found that, above around 20 MHz, signal propagation by both groundwave and skywave generally became minimal, which meant that station coverage now began to be limited to just line-of-sight distances from the transmitting antenna. This was considered to be a valuable characteristic by the FCC, because it would allow the establishment of broadcasting stations with limited but consistent day and night coverage, that could only be received by their local communities. It also meant that multiple stations could operate on the same frequency throughout the country without interfering with each other.

Because the standard AM broadcast band was considered to be too full to allow any meaningful increase in the number of stations, the FCC began to issue licenses to parties interested in testing the suitability of higher frequencies. Most Apex stations operated under experimental licenses, and were commonly affiliated with and subsidized by a commercially licensed AM station. Until the late 1930s, commercially made radio receivers did not cover these high frequencies, so early Apex station listeners constructed their own receivers, or built converters for existing models.

On March 18, 1934, W8XH in Buffalo, New York, a companion station to AM station WBEN, became the first Apex station to air a regular schedule. Although most of these stations merely retransmitted the programs of their AM station partners, in a few cases efforts were made to provide original programming. In 1936, The Milwaukee Journal's W9XAZ, which initially had relayed the programming of WTMJ, became the first Apex station to originate its own programming on a regular basis.

While monitoring the first group of stations, it was soon realized that, due to the strengthening of the ionosphere during periods of high solar activity, at times the lower end of the VHF frequencies would produce strong, and undesirable, skywave signals. (The December 1937 issue of All-Wave Radio reported that W6XKG in Los Angeles, transmitting on 25.95 MHz, had been heard in both Asia and Europe, while W9XAZ, 26.4 MHz in Milwaukee, Wisconsin had "a strong signal in Australia", and W8XAI, 31.6 MHz in Rochester, New York, "is another station that is often heard in Australia.") This most commonly occurred during the summer months, and during peaks in the 11-year sunspot cycle. This determination led to the FCC moving the developing broadcasting service stations, which by now began to include experimental FM radio and TV stations, to higher frequencies that were less affected by solar influences.

Apex band establishment (1937)
In October 1937, the FCC announced a sweeping allocation of frequency assignments for the various competing services, including television, relay, and public service, which covered 10 kHz to 300 MHz. Included was a band of Apex stations, consisting of 75 channels with 40 kHz separations, and spanning from 41.02 to 43.98 MHz. The 40 kHz spacing between adjacent frequencies was four times as much as the 10 kHz spacing on the standard AM broadcast band, which reduced adjacent-frequency interference, and provided more bandwidth for high-fidelity programming.

At the time it was estimated that there were about 50 Apex-style stations currently in operation, although transmitting on a variety of frequencies. In January 1938 the band's first 25 channels, from 41.02 to 41.98 MHz, were reserved for non-commercial educational stations, with the Cleveland City Board of Education's WBOE in Cleveland, Ohio, the first station to begin operation within this group.

Apex band assignments (1937–1941)

Conversion to FM (1941)

At the time the Apex band was established, the FCC noted that "The Commission at an early date will consider carefully the needs and requirements for high-frequency broadcast stations using both conventional [AM] modulation and frequency modulation". As of January 15, 1940, only 2 non-commercial and 14 experimental stations held Apex band licenses, all of which were assigned operating frequencies in the bottom half of the band. (A similar number of experimental stations held grants for frequencies in the 25–26 MHz region.) In addition, at this same time 20 experimental FM stations had been assigned slots within the top half of the Apex band frequencies.

The commission's studies soon found significant advantages to FM transmissions over the Apex AM signals. Sound quality, and especially resistance to interference from static, including from lightning, was found to be far superior for FM. Although FM assignments required five times the bandwidth of Apex stations (200 kHz vs. 40 kHz), the "capture effect" allowed FM stations operating on the same frequency to be spaced closer together than Apex stations. By 1939 the FCC began encouraging Apex stations to consider changing to the technically superior FM transmissions. In May 1940, the FCC decided to authorize a commercial FM band effective January 1, 1941, operating on 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz. (This was later changed to 88–106 MHz, and still later to 88–108 MHz, which increased the number of channels to 100.)

This new assignment also resulted in the elimination of the Apex band, and the Apex stations were informed that they needed to either go silent or convert to FM. With this change, a few of the original Apex stations were converted into some of the earliest FM stations. The three educational stations were allowed some leeway in making the conversion to FM, with WBOE switching over in February 1941, WNYE receiving permission to continue as an Apex station until June 29, 1941, and WBKY receiving a series of authorizations to continue using its AM transmitter until May 1, 1944. Currently, the frequencies that had been used by the Apex band are allocated for land mobile communication.

There would be at least one attempt to revive the Apex band concept. Beginning in May 1946, consulting radio engineer Sarkes Tarzian operated a 200-watt experimental AM station, W9XHZ, on 87.75 MHz in Bloomington, Indiana. After two years of successful operation of what he referred to as his "HIFAM" station, in 1948 he proposed that the FCC allocate a small high-frequency broadcast band, 400 kHz wide with 10 kHz spacing between frequency assignments. Tarzian promoted this as a low-cost alternative to expensive FM transmitters and receivers, saying that a $5.95 converter could be added to existing AM radios that would allow them to pick up the HIFAM stations. He continued to operate his experimental station, which eventually became KS2XAP, until 1950, although by then its transmitting hours were greatly restricted, as the FCC required the station to remain off the air whenever nearby WFBM-TV in Indianapolis was broadcasting. This was due to the fact that the TV station's audio transmitter used the same frequency as Tarzian's station. Moreover, after his station's final license expired on June 1, 1950, the FCC denied Tarzian any further renewals, concluding it would not reverse its earlier determination that there was no need for a second AM broadcast band.

Notes

References

External links
 America's Apex Broadcasting Stations of the 1930s by John Schneider, Monitoring Times Magazine, December 2010. (theradiohistorian.org)
 A Detroit Apex Station in 1936 (W8XWJ) by John Schneider, September 17, 2013. (radioworld.com)
 Pre-History: Detroit's Experimental Amplitude Modulation (AM) "Apex" Station, W8XWJ (michiguide.com)
 FCC History Cards for W8XWJ (covering 1936–1941)
 Apex Radio in Milwaukee (W9XAZ) (jeff560.tripod.com)
 Apex and FM chronology (jeff560.tripod.com)
 "High Frequency Broadcast Stations in the United States" (Licensed by FCC as of January 1, 1937), Broadcasting Yearbook (1937 edition), page 331.
 "High Frequency (Apex) Broadcast Stations in the United States" (authorized by FCC as of January 1, 1938), Broadcasting Yearbook (1938 edition), page 290.
 "High Frequency (Apex) Broadcast Stations in the United States" (authorized by FCC as of January 1, 1939), Broadcasting Yearbook (1939 edition), page 369. (jeff560.tripod.com)
 "High Frequency Broadcasting Stations in the United States" (Authorized by FCC as of January 15, 1940), Broadcasting Yearbook (1940 edition), page 374.
 High Frequency and FM broadcast stations in the U.S. in 1942 Radio Annual (jeff560.tripod.com)
 "Sarkes Tarzian and His HiFAM Experiment" by Andrew Mitz, Radio Age, July 2004.

Radio technology
History of radio in the United States
1930s in American music
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1934
Bandplans
Broadcast engineering

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#NEWPALMYRA (also known as the New Palmyra Project) is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra as an immersive virtual environment, based on archaeological and other clues.  The project was started from photos Bassel Khartabil had been taking of Palmyra since 2005.  He began building models of the ancient city, with support from Al Aous Publishers. In 2012, Khartabil was arrested, and the original project and open source files were lost.  Barry Threw took over as director of the project, renamed #NEWPALMYRA, and a community of developers, modelers, and archaeologists began collaborating to model, restore, and later recreate from scratch those historical structures captured on film and camera.

In 2015, the Islamic State captured Palmyra and subsequently destroyed some of its famous historical sites. In late 2015, the Institute for Digital Archaeology began contributing to the New Palmyra Project, sending archaeologists with cheap 3D cameras to capture any further structures that ISIL might decide to destroy.

3D models
 Arch of Triumph

One of the best known structures in Palmyra was the monumental Arch of Triumph (قوس النصر). Constructed during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus (193 to 211), it was sometimes mistakenly referred to as Hadrian's arch. It was restored in the 1930s, and then destroyed completely during the Syrian Civil War in 2015.

Palmyra's main streets were not at right angles, and this arch was famously built at a 30-degree turn in the colonnade between the tetrapylon (التترابيل) and the Temple of Bel (معبد بل), with two richly carved façades angled away from one another.

 Tetrapylon

A square platform, each corner containing a group of four columns. This was erected during the renovations of Diocletian at the end of the 3rd century. Each column had a pedestal in its center that originally supported a statue. The original columns were brought from Egypt and carved out of pink granite.  Only one was undamaged in 1963 when the whole was restored with concrete. Destroyed again by ISIL on January 20, 2017.

 Temple of Bel
This ancient temple was dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Bel in 32 AD.  Bel was worshipped at Palmyra along with the moon god Aglibol and the sun god Yarhibol.  The ruins of the temple were among the best preserved at Palmyra.  they were destroyed by ISIL in August, 2015.

 Roman theater
The Roman Theatre at Palmyra (المسرح الروماني بتدمر) dates to the time of Severus. Its remains were restored in the 20th century, and it served for a time as a venue for the annual Palmyra festival.  It was destroyed by ISIL in May 2015.

 Temple of Baal Shamin
The Temple of Baal Shamin dates to the 2nd century BC, and dedicated to the Canaanite sky deity. Its altar was built in 115 AD, and the temple was rebuilt in 131 AD. In the 5th century AD, it was converted to a church.  In 2015 it was destroyed by ISIL.

 Lion of Al-lāt statue

This was the first statue modeled by #rsssd (Re-Sculpting Syrian Statues Digitally).  In 2015 it was destroyed by ISIL.

Reconstructions and exhibits
A 12-ton lifesize replica of part of the Arch of Triumph was carved into stone, from these models, and installed in London's Trafalgar Square in 2016.

A number of small artefacts were reconstructed and displayed at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

A 10-foot model of part of the Tetrapylon, printed in a single piece, was unveiled at the April 2017 Creative Commons Summit.

Popular discussion
The project began to hold public events, partner with design groups and 3D printing shops, and receive press coverage starting in 2015.

Reviving Palmyra, a book on the history, destruction, and reconstruction of Palmyra, was published in 2017.

References

External links

 Official website

Palmyra
Creative Commons
Archaeology of Syria
3D imaging
Archaeological organizations
Heritage organizations
Non-profit organizations based in California
Organizations based in San Francisco
Organizations established in 2002
2015 establishments in California

NEWPALMYRA


Barbara Rylko-Bauer (born 1950) is a medical anthropologist and author who lives in the United States. She is an adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University's Department of Anthropology. She was born in 1950 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and emigrated with her parents to the United States that same year.

Career
Rylko-Bauer received an undergraduate degree in microbiology from the University of Michigan, and in 1985 was awarded a PhD in anthropology from the University of Kentucky.  Her interests include medical anthropology, applied anthropology, social suffering, health care inequities in the US, health and human rights, narrative analysis, and the Holocaust. She has published various articles, chapters, and books on these topics.  She has served as a contributing editor to the American Anthropology Association's Anthropology News for the Society for Medical Anthropology (1991–1994) and for the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology (2013-2014), as book review editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1994–2000), and on several committees for the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Her most recent work focuses on the intersection of health and violence and includes a volume, Global Health in Times of Violence, edited in collaboration with Linda Whiteford and Paul Farmer. She is the author of a biography-memoir, A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade, which focuses on her mother's experiences as a Polish prisoner-doctor in Nazi slave labor camps and her efforts to rebuild her life, first as a refugee doctor in Germany, and later as an immigrant to the United States.

Awards
In 2003, Barbara Rylko-Bauer won the Rudolph Virchow Award for her work with Paul Farmer.

References

External links
 Official site

American anthropologists
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
University of Kentucky alumni
Michigan State University faculty
1950 births
Kentucky women health professionals
Kentucky women writers
American women academics
21st-century American women

Barbara Rylko-Bauer


Olive Tilford Dargan (January 11, 1869 – January 22, 1968) was a writer and a poet. Her early works revolved around mountain poetry. Her works like: The Cycle's Rim, Lute and Furrow, Highland Annals were inspired from her love of mountains and nature. Later in her career, she published novels that focuses on racism, sexism, and fascism through her feminist visions of political activism and romanticism. Her most notable works were Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling which were written as part of her Gastonia novels.

Early life
Olive Tilford Dargan was born on January 11, 1869, on a farm in Grayson County, Kentucky. She moved to the southern Ozarks with her parents Elisha Frances Tilford & Rebecca (Day) Tilford, around age eleven and started her  work in elementary education. She became a teaching assistant at her Parents school until the time that she graduated. Dargan attended Peabody Teacher's College and later Radcliffe College where she met her husband Pegram Dargan, who was a senior at Harvard and a poet. She taught in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and Canada. In 1898 she married Pegram Dargan. During her time as a writer, Tilford published a number of novels, dramas, and poetry.

Her husband drowned near the coast of Cuba in 1915 and she returned to North Carolina. During that time she published The Cycle's Rim which were poems dedicated to her husband. She won the Southern Society of New York Prize for her work The Cycle's Rim in 1916. She was also awarded the Belmont-Ward Fugitive Prize in 1925. Dargan received an honorary degree in Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1925.

Olive Tilford Dargan started her writing career in 1904 when she published poetic dramas and lyric poetry. Her themes heavily revolved around mountains and nature. She traveled extensively and published The Welsh Pony and her first mountain poetry Path Flower and Other Verses in 1906. Her poem Lute and Furrow and The Spotted Hawk both contained her theme on mountains and the beauty of its nature.

Gastonia novels
After a fire at her Round Top home, Dargan moved to Asheville, where she lived in Bluebonnet Lodge, once owned by Rutherford Platt Hayes. Dargan took a pen name and wrote under the name Fielding Burke. She began writing short stories and three other novels as well. Her most notable works were Highland Annals and the Gastonia novels: Call Home The Heart and A Stone Came Rolling. Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling were influenced by the mountain migrant workers during the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Highland Annals, based on people Dargan knew when she was a widowed farmer in Swain County, North Carolina, was retitled From My Highest Hill in 1941, and this version included photos by Bayard Wooten.

Legacy
A North Carolina historical marker went up at the West Asheville library in 2000. Bluebonnet Lodge was torn down for office development after Dargan's death in 1968.

References

1.  Finding Aid for the Olive Tilford Dargan Manuscript, 1958 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

2. Booker, Keith M. 2005 Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing, Volume I: A-G" Greenwood Publishing Group, March 1, 2015, Print.

3. Cella, Laurie J.C. " Radical Romance in the Piedmont: Olive Tilford Dargan's Gastonia Novels, The Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.

4. Burke, Fielding. Call Home the Heart: A Novel of the Thirties. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1983. Print.

5. Ackerman, Kathy C. "A Heart of Revolution: The Radical Life and Novels of Olive Dargan," First ed. Knoxville: U of Tennessee, 2004. Google Books. University of Tennessee Press. Web. 03 Mar. 2015

6. Elfenbein, Anna Shannon. "A forgottenRevolutionary Voice: 'Woman's Place' and Race in Olive Dargan's Call Home the Heart." Manning, Carol S. "Female Tradition in Southern Literature." University of Illinois Press, 1993. March 2015.

7. "Olive Tilford Dargan." North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2015.

External links

20th-century American women writers
1869 births
1968 deaths
Vanderbilt University alumni
Radcliffe College alumni
Proletarian literature
American women novelists
20th-century American novelists
People from Grayson County, Kentucky
People from Asheville, North Carolina
Novelists from Kentucky
Novelists from North Carolina
People from Swain County, North Carolina

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Albufera sauce (known in French as Sauce Albuféra) is a minor sauce whose  mother sauce is velouté. It was probably created by Antonin Careme, to accompany Poularde Albufera, which he also created. It was named in honour of the Duke of Albufera.

Escoffier gives a recipe in Le Guide culinaire which consists of a base of  Suprême Sauce to which is added meat glaze in order to lend the latter an ivory-white tint which characterizes it. It is served chiefly with poultry and  sweetbreads.

References

Dishes named after people
Sauces

Albufera sauce


The Carthage Press was an American daily newspaper publisheded in Carthage, Missouri. It was owned by GateHouse Media until August 28, 2018. In September 2018, RH Media Group, a locally owned media company, announced they would be taking over publication of The Carthage Press with the first print issue in October. Publication of the print edition was abruptly shut down in January 2019. No announcements have been made about the paper's future.

The paper once billed itself as "Southwest Missouri's Oldest Daily Newspaper"; its daily predecessor The Evening Press began in 1885. Its roots as a weekly newspaper date to The People's Press, published in Carthage in 1872. Gatehouse Media announced on August 28, 2018 that the following day's issue would be its last. RH Media Group announced that it would be carrying on the 146-year-old newspaper tradition.

References

Newspapers published in Missouri
Jasper County, Missouri
Newspapers established in 1872
1872 establishments in Missouri

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