Redditt is an unincorporated community in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is on the MacFarlane River, and located at the northern terminus of Ontario Highway 658,  north of Kenora. Redditt is also the name of the surrounding geographic township that includes the community.

A designated place served by a local services board, Redditt had a population of 139 in the 2021 Canadian census.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Redditt had a population of 139 living in 76 of its 170 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 116. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Transportation
Until 1985, the main street of Redditt was called Highway 666. In 1985, an Evangelical Christian church located on the road nearer to Kenora asked for the highway to be renumbered, as there was a highway sign directly outside the church and they "got a lot of comments" from it being the number of the mark of the beast. Subsequently, the main street of Redditt and the road into town were renumbered to Highway 658. Members of the church had argued to the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario that it was inappropriate for their church to be located on the "Highway to Hell." Redditt is also the starting point for what is locally known as the "English River Road," which provides access the exploitation of resources, mostly logging, in the region north of Redditt.

Once a location for a Canadian National Railway roundhouse, the rail-yard operations were closed down in the early 1950s when the CNR switched to diesel-electrics from steam. Ontario Central Airlines, owned by Barney Lamb, then established a maintenance facility in the old roundhouse for its fleet of amphibious charter aircraft. The old switch yard was used as a landing strip for wheel aircraft after the tracks had been pulled. The inflow to Corn Lake (the MacFarlane River) was then dredged, and a control dam was constructed at the out flow of Ena Lake to ensure an adequate water depth for the landing of amphibious aircraft, which were then towed by dolly to the former roundhouse for maintenance.

Redditt is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, between Ena Lake to the west and Brinka to the east, and Redditt railway station is served by Via Rail transcontinental Canadian passenger trains.

There is no scheduled bus service to Redditt.

Economy

The primary economic activities are tourism and resource harvesting. Several hunting and sport fishing lodges and camps are found in Redditt. The facilities are usually quite basic, relying on the "external" or outdoor experience to provide the fun and excitement.  Prices are generally quite affordable. Many outfitters, lodges, and camps (the terms are quite often interchangeable) provide varying levels of service from simple "house keeping" cabins to full "American plan" (generally understood to mean all-inclusive except for licenses, alcohol, and tobacco). Price is, of course, service level dependent. Some of the operators provide an "outpost" camp experience; these outlying camps or cabins can usually only be reached by air via float plane, or by canoe over one or more portages and lakes. Traditionally, this has been seen as the truest wilderness experience. The areas where these "outposts" are located are more isolated, and less frequented by travelers, and thus often offer a higher potential for trophy hunting and fishing, and consequently also offer the non-hunter or non-angler a better chance to experience the northern wilderness uninterrupted without being imposed upon by strangers.

The greater proportion of the working population is employed in Kenora. There are many summer and weekend cottages/camps located in and around Redditt; the majority of which are owned by people from Winnipeg and Kenora, with few American people that have purchased properties in and around the town. The relative remoteness and isolation, low density, and privacy are attractive to people seeking a "rustic" retreat or recreational experience. The cost of recreational properties around Redditt is still very affordable for average incomes, especially when compared to prices on Lake of the Woods or the Winnipeg River.
ATV Trails and ski trails are abundant around Redditt to experience true wilderness, plus in blueberry season people come from far and wide to pick their own supply of wild fresh blueberries.
At the west side of Redditt, just north of Corn Lake, there is a rock quarry where high quality granite is mined. Visitors and residents are sometimes alarmed when blasting takes place at the quarry.

A branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is located in Redditt. There is also a Fire Hall, and a Community Club which hosts curling in Winter and also various other Community Functions etc.

Recreation

Fishing and hunting are the primary recreational and tourism activities for Redditt, and the Northwestern Ontario region in general. Though so called ecotourism is also being promoted, it has however failed to develop fully. Locals (including the First Nations, or Aboriginal Peoples) historically engaged in hunting and fishing for food. As such, whitetail deer, moose, ducks and geese were and are the primary quarry for local hunting. Ruffed and spruce grouse are popular upland game birds. Snowshoe hare is a tradition catch for women and children. Walleye (pickerel), northern pike, whitefish and lake trout were the primary food fish species. Outfitting and sport hunting is still focused on whitetail and moose. Black bears and wolves are becoming more and more desirable for non-resident hunters, especially those from Europe and the USA. Many local residents find employment as hunting and/or fishing guides. The primary sport fish species are walleye, northern pike, smallmouth bass, lake trout and muskie.

Snowmobiling is a popular winter activity in Redditt. Snowmobile trails connect Redditt with Kenora. Day trips to Redditt from Kenora are very popular. It is also possible to travel by snowmobile from Redditt to Manitoba, and to Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. The trails to Manitoba are fairly well maintained, and appropriate for operators of average ability. The trails to Woodland Caribou Provincial Park are single track, rugged, and extremely challenging, with many unpredictable water crossings and are therefore only appropriate for very experienced operators. Hiring an experienced guide is strongly recommended, as is traveling in groups. It is always recommended to be prepared for self rescue when snowmobiling, winter weather conditions can prevent search and rescue from reaching those seeking aid for many days.

Norway Lake, at the north end of town, is a popular picnic location(overnight.camping is no longer allowed). A fine beach and warm water makes it an attractive outing destination in the summer. Armstrong Lake, at the east end of town, is also popular for recreation and fishing. Corn Lake, at the south/west side of the village, is also a popular fishing and swimming destination for residents and visitors.

Bottle House

There is an attraction called The Bottle House that was designed and built by Hank and Myrtle Deverell in 1973. It took approximately 25,000 bottles and 1,000 pounds of mortar to build and the Deverells spent approximately 1,756 hours building it.

References

External links

Redditt profile at Sunset Country Tourist Region

Communities in Kenora District
Designated places in Ontario
Local services boards in Ontario
Bottle houses


The Independent Indoor Football Alliance (IIFA) was a professional indoor football league based in the state of Texas. The league played an abbreviated 2009 season punctuated by a number of forfeits.  The league grew and had tighter restrictions for 2010 in hopes of better football action. For the 2011 season, the IIFA joined forces with several independent teams.

2008 teams
 Kaufman County Crunch – Terrell, Texas 8–3
 Galveston Thunderstorm – Galveston, Texas 7–3
 Corsicana Thunder – Corsicana, Texas 4–5
 Collin County Wranglers – Mckinney, Texas 4–5
 DFW Doom – Euless, Texas 4–6
 Bay Area Buccaneers – Pasadena, Texas 3–6
 Spring Bulls – Spring, Texas 3–4

2008 Announced teams that never played

These teams were announced by the IIFA at the start of the 2008 season, but never took the field.

 Harris County Militia – Humble, Texas
 Texas Rough Riders – San Antonio, Texas

2009 Teams
 North Texas Crunch – Forney, Texas 7–3 (Formerly Kaufman County Crunch)
 Texas Krush – Dallas, Texas 2–2
 DFW Doom – Euless, Texas 2–4
 Texas Smash – 1–2
 Texas Wranglers – Mckinney, Texas 3–5

2010 Teams
 Mid Cities Mustangs – North Richland Hills, Texas 1–4
 Missouri City Blitz – Houston, Texas 0–3
 North Texas Crunch – Southlake, Texas 10–1
 East Texas Drillers – Tyler, Texas 6–4
 Texas Krush – North Richland Hills, Texas 3–8
 Southlake Pirates – Southlake, Texas (Formerly the DFW Doom, sharing the same arena as the North Texas Crunch) 7–3
 Oklahoma Titans – Ardmore, Oklahoma 0–3
 Texas Wranglers – Allen, Texas 2–4

2011 Teams

 Houston Pirates – 3–6
 North Texas Broncos – 0–5
 North Texas Crunch – 7–3
 East Texas Wranglers  – 8–2–1
 Texas Krush – 3–6
 Southlake Pirates – 8–1–1
 Dallas Americans – 0–2

Non-League Teams which played against IIFA teams
 Reno Barons
 Stockton Wolves
 Abilene Ruff Riders

(Both the Wolves and the Barons played under the banner of the "Western Indoor Football Association," the remains of the American Indoor Football Association's West Division.)

Announced 2011 Team that never played
 Conroe Jaguars

League champions
 2008 – Kaufman County Crunch (defeated Galveston 52–50 in the championship game, Alliance Bowl I)
 2009 – North Texas Crunch (defeated Texas Wranglers 52–12 in Alliance Bowl II)
 2010 – North Texas Crunch (defeated Southlake Pirates 10–8 in Alliance  Bowl III)
 2011 – East Texas Wranglers (defeated Southlake Pirates 40–14 in Alliance Bowl IV)

Defunct indoor American football leagues in the United States
Organizations established in 2008
American football in Texas


Amanda Magarian (born March 1, 1984 in Fresno, CA) is an American retired pair skater. Most notably, she skated with Jered Guzman for several years and won the pewter medal at the 2000 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Results
pairs with Mel Chapman

pairs with John Frederiksen

pairs with Guzman

References
 Pairs on Ice competitive history: Magarian & Guzman

1984 births
American female pair skaters
Living people
21st-century American women


Eriogonum dasyanthemum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name chaparral buckwheat. This plant is endemic to California where it is limited to the Northern Coast Ranges, but it is quite common in its native range.

Description
It is an annual herb with spindly gray to reddish fuzzy stems that grow to a maximum of 60 centimeters in height. Leaves are basal, small, and less than two centimeters long. The plant produces tiny clusters of pink flowers on its spreading branches. Each flower cluster is less than a centimeter wide. Flowers bloom May to October.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment - Eriogonum dasyanthemum
Eriogonum dasyanthemum - Photo gallery

dasyanthemum
Endemic flora of California
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


Yates Mill is a fully restored, circa 1756 gristmill located five miles (8 km) south of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It is the centerpiece of Historic Yates Mill County Park, in central Wake County. The park features the restored mill; a visitor center with a museum focused on milling and on the natural history of the area, classrooms, an auditorium and space for research conducted by North Carolina State University faculty and students; a  lake; and extensive hiking trails. The park is managed as a native wildlife refuge with a mission to study and interpret the park's cultural, natural and agricultural heritage.

History
Yates Mill, one of the oldest buildings in Wake County, is the region's only surviving operable gristmill. For nearly 200 years the water-powered mill produced lumber, milled corn and wheat, and carded wool. The land on which the mill is situated was surveyed for Samuel Pearson in October 1756, and granted to him by the Earl of Granville, one of the North Carolina colony's Lord Proprietors. The original mill was built around at that time. Pearson steadily increased his land holdings, and owned more than  at the time of his death in 1802. In 1819, accumulated debts forced Pearson's son, Simon, to sell the mill and its surrounding acreage at a sheriff's auction. William Boylan, a prominent Raleigh businessman and director of the State Bank, bought the property, and over the next 30 years modernized the mill several times, adding a sawmill in the 1840s.

In 1853, Thomas Briggs, John Primrose, and James Penny acquired the mill. A decade later, in the midst of the Civil War, the partners sold the mill and surrounding  to Phares and Roxanna Yates, James Penny's son-in-law and daughter. Penny's involvement in the murder of a Mr. Franklin may have brought on the sale. According to legend, Franklin was a Northern sympathizer who Penny killed for not paying a $700 mill debt. In 1865, Franklin's widow supposedly told Federal troops occupying Raleigh that her husband's death was due to his support for the Union. The soldiers tried to burn the mill by setting fire to the entrance. Charred wooden beams today attest to the unsuccessful attempt.

Yates and his descendants operated the mill until 1948, when businessman A. E. Finley acquired the property. Finley constructed a retreat lodge by the millpond for the use of his family and employees. Due to lack of demand, however, the old mill was closed in 1953. Ten years later, North Carolina State University acquired the property, consolidating it into a larger tract to be used as an experimental farm. The mill was mainly used for storage until 1989, when Yates Mill Associates was incorporated to marshal its restoration. The mill narrowly escaped destruction in 1996, when rains unleashed by Hurricane Fran burst its 250-year-old stone dam. In 1996, Yates Mill Associates and Wake County Parks, Recreation and Open Space unveiled a public-private partnership to rehabilitate the dam and mill as part of a  historic and environmental park. Yates Mill is now a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark.

Current use

The mill stood vacant for several years until Yates Mill Associates, Inc. began restoration efforts in 1988. The mill is an example of the Oliver Evans type of grist mill and has been restored to its state as of the mid-19th century. Both the corn and wheat grinding machinery have been restored. Several corn grindings have been held since the mill officially opened to the public on May 20, 2006. The mill is frequently open for historic tours and corn grinding is demonstrated on specific days.

Yates Mill Associates, Inc. restored the mill with donations from governmental agencies, North Carolina State University, foundations, corporations and private citizens. North Carolina State University provided  on a long-term lease and will use the park for ongoing natural history research.

Wake County purchased  to add to the park and The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services have provided access to an adjacent parcel of about  for park use. The Wake County Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department oversaw the development of this  park. The County supervised the construction of the A.E. Finley Center for Education and Research, and provides the personnel and support needed to operate the park. Yates Mill Associates organizes and finances the maintenance of the mill and its demonstration using private donations and volunteer help.

See also
List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina

References

External links

 Yates Mill Associates – Official website
 Guide to the Yates Mill Associates Records circa 1946-2016
 Historic Yates Mill County Park – Park website
 Video of Yates Mill
 Video showing the interior and exterior of the Mill from 2016

National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina
Buildings and structures in Raleigh, North Carolina
North Carolina State University
Parks in North Carolina
Pre-statehood history of North Carolina
Mill museums in North Carolina
Museums in Raleigh, North Carolina
Industry museums in North Carolina
Protected areas of Wake County, North Carolina
Geography of Raleigh, North Carolina
Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Industrial buildings completed in 1756
Grinding mills in North Carolina


CKCX was the call sign used for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's shortwave transmitter complex near Sackville, New Brunswick at the Tantramar Marshes. The Sackville Relay Station was operated by Radio Canada International and broadcast its programming around the world as well as relay transmissions from several foreign shortwave broadcasters. Domestically, it transmitted broadcasts on 9.625 MHz to northern Quebec by CBC North, the James Bay Cree Communications Society and Taqramiut Nipingat, the Inuit communications society of the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. The CKCX designation was assigned after CBC Radio's CBA, under whose licence the Sackville complex originally operated, moved to Moncton in 1968. Sackville was also used by Radio Japan, China Radio International, Voice of Vietnam, BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle  and Radio Korea as part of a transmitter time exchange agreement.

History
The site at Sackville was originally built in 1938 for CBC local broadcasting over radio station CBA. In 1943, two RCA shortwave transmitters were installed.
In 1970, all CBC operations moved to Moncton. This move was necessary so as to allow new Collins transmitters to be installed.

In the mid-1980s, the RCA transmitters were replaced by the three, more modern, Harris transmitters.

Decommissioning and demolition
Radio Canada International's shortwave service was shut down in June 2012 due to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation budget cuts as a result of reduced federal subsidies.  As a result the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sought to sell the Sackville site to either another international broadcaster or a wind farm company. According to Martin Marcotte, director of CBC Transmission: "[The Sackville complex] will be fairly costly to dismantle and as a last resort we would dismantle the facility, return it to bare land as it was when we first acquired that site." The transmission site was officially closed on October 31, 2012, at the conclusion of several contracts leasing transmitter time to international broadcasters. The site, however, continued to be used until December 1, 2012, for transmission of CBC's Northern Quebec service until the installation of several low power transmitters in the target region could be completed. The CRTC granted a request by the CBC to revoke CKCX's license effective December 1, 2012. The site was subsequently dismantled. After failing to receive any bids to purchase the complex, the antennas were dismantled and transmission towers demolished in 2014.

RCI's parent, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was the owner and operator of the Sackville transmission site, call sign CKCX. RCI's only transmitter site was located on the Tantramar Marshes several kilometres (miles) east of the town of Sackville, New Brunswick. RCI leased or bartered its spare transmission capacity with other international broadcasters. Sackville was the only high power shortwave relay station in Canada and also transmitted CBC North broadcasts to northern Quebec.

Technology
The Sackville facility was an impressive mixture of diverse technologies. The whole facility was controlled by computer automation which was centralized in the main control room. Frequencies, antennas, and input feeds are switched all according to internationally agreed upon schedules which were renegotiated twice per year with other countries.

Sackville transmitter power level breakdown
 There were 9 transmitters in operation in 2012.
 (3 or 4) x 100 kW
 (3 or 4) x 250 kW
 3 x 300 kW
 The site was capable of utilizing 500 kW transmitters, but the end of the Cold War and improved shortwave frequency coordination made upgrading to 500 kW unnecessary.

The newest Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) transmitters used a "pulse-step" type modulation (PSM). All Sackville ABB transmitters had 250 kW output, although there were some newer Thales transmitters that are 300 kW. Thales transmitters could use APDM (Adaptive PDM) the design successor to PSM (partly based on PSM modulation).

All modern Sackville SW transmitters incorporated Dynamic Carrier Control (DCC) of some kind.
 DCC causes the carrier level to be automatically reduced when there are lower levels or no audio.
 During periods of silence (no audio), the carrier power was reduced by 50%, so the 250 kW transmitter put out a carrier of 125 kW during audio pauses. This saved otherwise wasted empty carrier power.

Site layout
Sackville had a site layout similar to the Wertachtal Shortwave Relay Station, with a few substantial differences.
 Wertachtal has 3 arms of HRS type antennas that are spaced at ~120 degrees; Sackville Relay Station only approximates this configuration.
 The Wertachtal configuration allows for near 360 degree coverage of the world.
 Wertachtal exclusively contains HRS type transmission antennas, whereas Sackville does not.
 Sackville site configuration information supported this comparison, with respect to HRS type antenna azimuths.

Site configuration
This site configuration data is known to be accurate for 2004-2005.

Transmitters (configuration not fully verified)
 3 × 250 kW SW (1993–1995, ABB: SK 53 C3-2)
 3 × 100 kW SW (1983, Harris: SW-100A) this transmitter is under démolition (3 Harris) July 2012
 3 × (Unknown power) (Unknown models)
 A new SW transmitter has been acquired that is DRM capable.

It known that at least one SW transmitter had been outfitted to transmit DRM at this time.

Antennas (Type, Bearing) (configuration not fully verified)
 HR 4/4/1.0 (60 degrees)
 HR 4/2/1.0 (105 degrees)
 HR 4/4/1.0 (163 degrees)
 HR 4/4/1.0 (176 degrees)
 HR 4/4/1.0 (189 degrees)
 HR 2/4/1.0 (227 degrees)
 HR 2/4/1.0 (240 degrees)
 HR 4/4/1.0 (240 degrees)
 HR 4/4/1.0 (272 degrees)
 HR 2/1/0.5 (277 degrees)

To better understand the ITU HR antenna notation, see the HRS type antennas guide.

See also
CXCK/RCI - History of Canadian Broadcasting

References

KCX
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio stations
KCX
Radio stations established in 1968
Radio stations disestablished in 2012
1968 establishments in New Brunswick
2012 disestablishments in New Brunswick
KCX


Jered Guzman (born September 12, 1981 in Garden Grove, California) is an American retired competitive pair skater.  From 1992 to 1998, he teamed with Natalie Vlandis, capturing the gold medal at the 1996 U.S. Junior Championships and finishing fifth at the 1998 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.  He then joined forces with Amanda Magarian for several years, with a fourth-place finish for the pair at the 2000 Nationals. After that partnership ended, he briefly skated with Jennifer Don.

Guzman's mother, Jennie Walsh, won the bronze medal in ladies' singles at the 1967 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and was Guzman and Vlandis' coach.

Results

Men's Singles

Pairs
(with Vlandis)

(with Magarian)

(with Don)

References
 Junior Achievement: a look at the 1996 u.s. junior champions
 Pairs on Ice competitive history: Vlandis & Guzman
 Pairs on Ice competitive history: Magarian & Guzman
 Pairs on Ice competitive history: Don & Guzman

1981 births
American male pair skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Garden Grove, California


Sara Mohanpur (also called Sara Mohammad) is a village in Darbhanga District of Bihar, located 4 km from the Darbhanga Railway Station and 9.3 km from the Darbhanga Airport.

Saramohanpur is a sign of unity between different people belonging to different castes.

Sara Mohanpur is also famous for the palatial Mohanpur House and the garden/orchard surrounding it. Mohanpur House belonged to the (Late) Mukund Jha, who donated it in 1972 to the Government of Bihar for establishing an Ayurvedic College.

Initially, the Mohanpur House served as the head office of the L N Mithila University from 1972 to 1975. Thereafter Maharani "Rameshwari Bhartiya Chikitsa Vigyan Sansthan" was established and functions at this house. It was named after the wife of Maharaja Rameshwar Singh, the second last Maharaja of Darbhanga.

This institute is affiliated with Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University and offers the BAMS degree.

References

Villages in Darbhanga district


Archer is a relatively new and still sparsely populated suburb in the southwestern part of Palmerston. It is 25 km SE of the Darwin CBD and 5.4 km from Palmerston City. Its local government area is the City of Palmerston. Archer is the largest suburb of Palmerston by area.

It is named after James C. Archer.

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#a#a

Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory


Ernst Volgenau is a retired United States Air Force office and founder and former CEO of SRA International.  He later served as chairman of the board for the company, and rector of the George Mason University board of visitors.

Early life and education
Volgenau came from a farm in Clarence, New York to the U.S. Naval Academy.  He wrestled and threw the javelin. He graduated in 1955 and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Air Force.  Later he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering, and in 1966 his Ph.D. in engineering at UCLA. He taught graduate courses in electrical engineering, computer systems, and operations research at UCLA, American University, and George Washington University for eight years.{

Military career
In the United States Air Force 1955–1976, Colonel Volgenau had assignments in aerospace research and development, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as Director of Data Automation for the Air Force Logistics Command.  As Director of Inspection and Enforcement for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1976–1978 he managed 700 engineers.  He subsequently consulted for the Indian Head Company, a firm with a subsidiary supplied pumps to nuclear power plants in the United States.

SRA International
After retirement from the Air Force in 1978, he founded SRA International and operated it initially in his Reston basement.  The company grew to several thousand employees and went public.  He was president and CEO until 2005.  He was chairman of the board in 2013.

Honors
He was rector of the George Mason University board of visitors (2007–2012.) The university's Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering bears his name. His $10 million donation to that program was the largest it had ever received.

In August 2020, the Nature Conservancy named its Virginia Coast Reserve in honor of multiple gifts by the Volgenau family over 30 years.

References

Living people
1930s births
American computer businesspeople
United States Naval Academy alumni
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
George Mason University people
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
George Washington University faculty
American University faculty and staff
Engineers from New York (state)
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Air Force officers
People from McLean, Virginia
People from Clarence, New York
Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials


Arthur James Bater (29 December 1889 – 5 April 1969) was an English-Canadian politician and farmer. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1949 election and defeated in the 1953 election.

External links

1889 births
1959 deaths
British emigrants to Canada
Canadian people of Cornish descent
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan
Place of death missing
Farmers from Cornwall
20th-century English farmers


Ian Browne may refer to:

 Ian Browne (cyclist) (born 1931), Australian Olympic gold medal winner
 Ian Browne (musician) (born 1973), former drummer for the Matthew Good Band

See also
 Ian Brown (disambiguation)


Stanwood Fulton Baumgartner (December 14, 1894 – October 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who became a longtime sportswriter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born in Houston and raised in Chicago, Baumgartner played for the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League from 1914 to 1916 and from 1921 through early 1922. Then he played for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics of the American League from 1924 to 1926. In all, he worked in 143 major league games and won 26 of 47 decisions, for a winning percentage of .553.

Baseball career
A left-hander, Baumgartner was listed as  tall and . He played college baseball, football and basketball at the University of Chicago from 1912 to 1914. During the 1913–14 season, all three teams went on to win the Big Ten Conference title, and Baumgartner was chosen for the All-Conference teams in all three sports.

Baumgartner then signed with the Phillies and—with no prior professional baseball experience—made his major league debut on June 26, 1914, throwing one-third of an inning in relief against the Brooklyn Robins. He played in 15 games his rookie year, posting a 2–2 record and an earned run average of 3.28, along with two complete games and a shutout. The 1915 season saw Baumgartner as the Phils' main game finisher: he pitched in 16 games, finishing a team-leading 12. He did not pitch in the 1915 World Series.

Baumgartner was admitted to law school and took classes at the University of Chicago in the offseason. Following a Phillies spring training trip to Tampa in March 1916, Baumgartner remained in Tampa and took his law school exams under the proctorship of a law professor at the University of Tampa.

Baumgartner only worked in one game during the 1916 season. He then left "Organized Baseball" for four full years, and did not return to the Phillies until 1921. During that season, he appeared in 22 games, earning three wins against six losses. He pitched six games for the Phillies in 1922, none after May 30, and spent the remainder of that season and all of 1923 in minor league baseball.

In 1924, he came back to Philadelphia as a member of the Athletics, and ended up having the best season of his career. In 1924, he pitched in 36 games and started 16, hurled 12 complete games, and posted an ERA of 2.88, which was fourth best in the American League. The following season, he appeared in a career-high 37 games and compiled an ERA of 3.57. After one more season with the Athletics in 1926, mostly as a reliever, Baumgartner was sent to the Pacific Coast League, where he won 14 games. It was his last year in professional baseball. In his 143 MLB games pitched he allowed 553 hits and 185 bases on balls in 505 innings. He fanned 129 and posted 18 complete games and three shutouts.

Sportswriter
After his playing retirement, Baumgartner became a journalist, first covering the police beat before settling in as a sportswriter, covering all sports and specializing in baseball. He wrote for The Sporting News and The Philadelphia Inquirer until, suffering from late-stage colorectal cancer, he retired during the 1955 season. He died in Philadelphia at the age of 60 on October 4, during the 1955 World Series. He was interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania.

Coaching career
During World War I, and his hiatus from professional baseball, Baumgartner—although only 22 years old at the time—was also the head coach for the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football program for the 1917 season. He compiled a 2–5 record.

Head coaching record

Football

References

External links

 Williams, Phil, Stan Baumgartner. Society for American Baseball Research Biography Project

1894 births
1955 deaths
American men's basketball players
Baseball players from Houston
Burials at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Chicago Maroons baseball players
Chicago Maroons football players
Chicago Maroons men's basketball players
Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Kansas City Blues (baseball) players
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens baseball coaches
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football coaches
Major League Baseball pitchers
New Haven Profs players
Philadelphia Athletics players
The Philadelphia Inquirer people
Philadelphia Phillies players
Providence Grays (minor league) players
Portland Beavers players
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players


Bakewell is an inner-city suburb of Palmerston, Australia. It is 24.9 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its local government area is the City of Palmerston. Bakewell is bounded to the north by Buscall Avenue, to the west is Chung Wah Terrace, and to the south and east is Lambrick Avenue. Development of the area dates from the 1990s. Bakewell is named after Edward Howard Bakewell, an original land owner.

Recreation

Bakewell has a number of well looked after public parks with public toilets which are cleaned daily. The largest park is on the border of the suburb Gunn and Bakewell itself. It includes 3 extremely large ponds and a children's playground which should soon be in the process of rehabilitation. The ponds are man made but they do very slowly run out into the wilderness and new water is pumped back in. At certain times of the year many children come to put remote controlled boats into the water.

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040718/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#b#b

Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory


Rafael Medoff (born  1959) is an American professor of Jewish history and the founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is based in Washington, D.C. and focuses on issues related to America's response to the Holocaust.

Academic career
Medoff received his PhD from Yeshiva University in New York City in 1991. In 2001 he was visiting scholar in Jewish Studies at the State University of New York at Purchase.

Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and elsewhere.

Medoff has served on the editorial boards of American Jewish History, Southern Jewish History, Shofar and Menorah Review.

He has been closely associated and Academic Council member of American Jewish Historical Society for many years. He has served on its Academic Council since 1995, authored installments of its "Chapters in American Jewish History" series, and served as associate book review editor (1999–2001) and then associate editor (2002–2006) of its scholarly journal, American Jewish History. He has also served as a consultant to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland.

Views
Medoff has accused the U.S. State Department of downplaying official antisemitism in the Arab world, and made comparisons with State Department's downplaying of official German antisemitism in the 1930s.

Publications and media

Books
Medoff is the author or editor of 16 books about American Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust. His first book, The Deafening Silence: American Jewish Leaders and the Holocaust, was published in 1987 by Shapolsky Books, the U.S. division of the Israeli publisher Steimatzky. The Association of Jewish Libraries called it "a damning book that cannot be ignored" and "an important contribution to the study of the Holocaust period." His essays and reviews have appeared in many scholarly journals.

Zionism and American Jewish history
Medoff's Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898–1948 was published by Praeger in 1997. Jerold S. Auerbach from American Jewish History praised it as:
"a meticulously researched and carefully crafted analysis ...Any historian of the complex relationship of American Jews and Israel, indeed every serious student of American Jewish history, must confront the American Jewish dilemma that Rafael Medoff has explored and explained in this fine monograph."

Lawrence Davidson of West Chester University cites Medoff's assertion in Zionism and the Arabs, that Zionists did not see the Palestinian Arabs as "a distinct national group with national rights-largely because the Palestinian Arabs themselves did not claim the status of a specific national grouping", to argue against Zionism on the grounds that "no one ruled against self- determination in other parts of Greater Syria where the same views prevailed."

He coauthored the Historical Dictionary of Zionism with Prof. Chaim I. Waxman, published by Scarecrow Press in 2000, with a revised and expanded edition in 2008. A reviewer for Choice magazine called it "thorough and objective", and a reviewer for the Israel Studies Bulletin described it as "useful both for reference and course work ... user-friendly ... The authors have filled many gaps left by the standard histories of Zionism."

Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2001. Conservative Judaism's reviewer called it:
"a splendid exemplar of scholarship ... equally suitable for academicians and the general public ... Medoff deserves praise for elucidating with great charm and authenticity the doomed efforts of an important segment of American Jewry to rescue persecuted European Jews and avert Arab-Israel conflict.

His next book Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926–1948, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2002. Middle East Quarterly's reviewer wrote:
"Militant Zionism in America has the freshness and immediacy of the archival sources and interviews that massively support its argument; and it adds another cubit to the stature of one of our preeminent historians of Zionism."

Books about the Holocaust

Medoff's textbook, Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook, published by ABC-CLIO in 2002, was named an "Outstanding Academic Title of 2002" by the American Library Association's Choice magazine.

Medoff and David S. Wyman in 2002 coauthored the first scholarly study of the Holocaust rescue activists known as the Bergson Group, A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust, published by The New Press. In The New Republic, Dr. Michael Oren (today Israel's ambassador to the United States) called A Race Against Death "an important book [by] veteran chroniclers of America's shameful inaction during the Holocaust." The Jerusalem Post hailed it as "a must-read for Jewish leaders the world over, as well as for committed Jews and anyone interested in the response of American Jewry to the Holocaust."  In response to the publication of A Race Against Death, officials of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., announced that they would add materials about the Bergson Group to the museum's permanent exhibit.

In The Deafening Silence, Medoff argues that had American Jewish leaders been more forceful in presenting the case for rescue of European Jews to the Roosevelt administration, they could have moved the administration to act. In Deborah Lipstadt's review of Holocaust literature, she engages Medoff's argument, but concludes that "There is nothing on record to indicate that their outspoken support would have changed the mind of restrictionist legislators."

Together with former New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch, Medoff in 2008 coauthored The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism, published by Palgrave MacMillan. It was named to the New York Post's "Required Reading" list.  The Forward wrote: "The legendary former New York City mayor has never been shy about standing up for his fellow Jews.  The hallmark of Koch's approach to this issue, as his book demonstrates, is a determination to confront bigotry—with steadfastness and an insistent sense of urgency."

Also in 2008, Purdue University Press published his book Blowing the Whistle on Genocide:  Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust.  The National Jewish Post and Opinion wrote:  "Blowing the Whistle on Genocide brings to life an inspiring but little-known chapter of Holocaust history."

Essays
In 2008, Medoff authored "Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Haskel Lookstein", a lengthy biographical essay published as a paperback by Ktav. Subsequently, an updated version of that book was included in the two-volume Rav Chesed: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, which Medoff edited, and was published by Ktav in 2009.

He authored installments of American Jewish Historical Society's "Chapters in American Jewish History" series, and served as associate book review editor (1999–2001) and then associate editor (2002–2006) of its scholarly journal, American Jewish History.

Medoff's essays have appeared in various scholarly journals, including Studies in Zionism, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Journal of Genocide Research, American Jewish History, and American Jewish Archives. He also served as guest editor for the autumn 2004 issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies.

He authored the essay "New Yorkers and the Birth of Israel", which was featured in the May 1998 New York Times supplement commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of Israel.

Medoff has also published op-eds concerning the Holocaust and related issues in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Detroit Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Sun, Ha'aretz, the Jerusalem Report, the Jerusalem Post, and Germany's largest daily newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung. Medoff currently writes a weekly column for Ami (magazine).

Encyclopedia articles
He has authored entries for numerous encyclopedias and reference books, including the Encyclopaedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of the Diaspora, the Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, the Columbia History of the Jewish People in America, American National Biography, the Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, and Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.

Cartoons and comics

Reflecting his interest in the use of cutting-edge media to teach about the Holocaust, Medoff collaborated with comic book artist Neal Adams on a comic book about the experiences of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, a Holocaust survivor who attempted to regain paintings she did for Josef Mengele in order to survive in Auschwitz. It was published in X-Men: Magneto: Testimony #5, in early 2009.  On the seventieth anniversary of the voyage of the refugee ship St. Louis, Medoff collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman on a full-page cartoon history of the voyage, published in the Washington Post in June 2009. Medoff also teamed up with comic book artist Sal Amendola on a full-page political cartoon about U.S. athletes who boycotted the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which appeared in The New Republic in August 2008. In addition, Medoff served as a consultant to Homeland, a graphic novel telling the history of Israel's creation, by comic book veterans Marv Wolfman and Mario Ruiz.

In 2010, Medoff and comics creator Neal Adams teamed with Disney Educational Productions to produce They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust, an online educational motion comics series that tells stories of Americans who protested Nazis or helped rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Each standalone episode, which runs from five to ten minutes, utilizes a combination of archival film footage and animatics, and focus on a different person. The first episode, "La Guardia's War Against Hitler" was screened in April 2010 at a festival sponsored by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, and tells the story of the forceful stand New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia took against Nazi Germany, in contrast to that of President Franklin Roosevelt, whom most historians feel did not do all he could have to save European Jews, a point underlined in the episode "Messenger from Hell". Other episodes include "Voyage of the Doomed", which focuses on the S.S. St. Louis, the ship that carried more than 900 German-Jewish refugees but was turned away by Cuban authorities and later the Roosevelt administration, and "Rescue Over the Mountains", which depicts Varian Fry, the young journalist who led an underground rescue network that smuggled Jewish refugees out of Vichy, France.

Medoff has served as a consultant to a number of television and movie projects, including Holocaust: The Untold Story, (Freedom Forum Television Network / Newseum TV), which was broadcast on The History Channel in 2001 and nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award; Against the Tide, produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Moriah Films; In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II; and Looking into the Face of Evil, produced by the Ohio Council on Holocaust Education; as well as programs concerning the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, for Israel Television and Italian National Television.

Bibliography
The Deafening Silence: American Jewish Leaders and the Holocaust (New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1987)
Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma, 1898–1948,  1997, Greenwood Publishing Group
"Historical Dictionary of Zionism" [coauthored with Chaim I. Waxman] (Scarecrow Press, 2000 revised and expanded edition, 2008)
Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II,  2001,  Lexington Books
"Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook" (ABC-CLIO, 2002) Named an "Outstanding Academic Title of 2002"  by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine
 A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust, with David S. Wyman (The New Press, 2002)
 Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement, University of Alabama Press, 2002
"Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Haskel Lookstein" (Hoboken, New Jersey:  Ktav, 2008)
 "The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism" (with Edward I. Koch).  New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
"Rav Chesed:  Essays in Honor of Rabbi Dr. Haskel Lookstein" (ed.) (Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav, 2009)
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr and the Struggle for an American Response to the Holocaust (2009)
The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (2019)

References

External links

 The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies

Living people
Historians of the Holocaust
Historians of Jews and Judaism
Writers on Zionism
Yeshiva University alumni
Ohio State University faculty
State University of New York at Purchase faculty
1959 births


Secondary Highway 658, commonly referred to as Highway 658, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Kenora District. The highway extends  between the city of Kenora and the community of Redditt. For a decade, Highway 658 was numbered as Highway 666, leading to numerous sign thefts and a petition by members of a church on the route. This petition eventually led to the route being renumbered in late 1985.

Route description
Highway 658 is a  highway located within Kenora District northwest of the city of Kenora. It travels through communities lying north of Highway 17A, the Trans-Canada Highway. It is mostly rural, being surrounded by ranches and equipment sheds as well as the boreal forest and rock outcroppings of the Canadian Shield. In the town of Redditt, the highway ends at a train station served by Via Rail.

History
Highway 658 was originally designated on July 21, 1966, travelling north from Highway 17, west of Whitefish. The route was  long, passing west through Worthington and turning north to near Fairbank Provincial Park.
This route and most other secondary highways in the area were transferred to the Regional Municipality of Sudbury when it was established on January 1, 1973, and is now known as Greater Sudbury Municipal Road 4.

The current iteration of Highway 658 was originally designated as Highway 128, a route which came into existence on January 18, 1956. In 1975, the route was one of several King's Highways redesignated as Secondary Highways; it was given the number 666. Local citizen and two churches located along the route began to petition the MTO in 1982, requesting the number be changed due to concerns with its connotation as the "number of the beast". The route number was officially changed to 658 on November 1, 1985, though signs indicating "Formerly Highway 666" were attached to reassurance markers along the highway.

Major intersections

References

658
Roads in Kenora District
Transport in Kenora


Maria Hall-Brown is an American journalist, television producer, and actor.

Journalism

She is the host and producer of Bookmark with Maria Hall-Brown, a news magazine featuring interviews with book authors, and a producer and occasional correspondent on KOCE's Real Orange newscast.  Hall-Brown was a producer for Calworks: Steps Towards Success, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award in 2003.  She was awarded a Golden Mike Award by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California in 2007.

Acting

Maria Hall-Brown starred alongside David Carradine in 1988's Open Fire and 1998's Light Speed.

Education and background
Hall-Brown earned a BFA in Drama from UC Irvine in 1984.  Her birthday is January 23.

References
 "Bookmark with Maria Hall-Brown", KOCE, 2005.  Accessed 1/23/2008.
 "Real Orange", KOCE, 2007.  Accessed 1/23/2008.
 "The 55th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards", Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 2003.  Accessed 1/23/2008.
 "Maria Hall-Brown", IMDB.  Accessed 1/23/2008.
 "UCI Arts Quarterly", UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Spring 2007.

Footnotes

American television journalists
Television producers from California
American women television producers
University of California, Irvine alumni
Living people
American women television journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women


The Orchestral Suite No. 4, Op. 61, more commonly known as Mozartiana, is an orchestral suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, written in 1887 as a tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the 100th anniversary of that composer's opera Don Giovanni.  Because this suite consists of four orchestrations of piano pieces by (or in one case, based on) Mozart, Tchaikovsky did not number this suite with his previous three suites for orchestra.  Instead, he considered it a separate work entitled Mozartiana.  Nevertheless, it is usually counted as No. 4 of his orchestral suites.

Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere himself, in Moscow in November 1887.  It was the only one of his suites he conducted, and only the second at whose premiere he was present.

Orchestration
This suite is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and trumpets, four horns, timpani, cymbals, glockenspiel, harp and strings.

Structure
Mozartiana is in four movements and lasts approximately 20 minutes.

Overview
Tchaikovsky's treatment of Mozart's work here was both faithful and, as David Brown phrases it, "affectionate."  He took the music as it stood and endeavoured to present it in the best possible light—this is, in late 19th-century guise.  His intent was to win greater appreciation among his contemporaries for Mozart's lesser-known works.

Tchaikovsky had always held Don Giovanni in the greatest awe and regarded Mozart as his musical god. The great soprano Pauline Viardot-Garcia, who was the teacher of Tchaikovsky's one-time unofficial fiancée Désirée Artôt (and whom she may have persuaded not to go through with her plan to marry the composer), had purchased the manuscript of the opera in 1855 in London and kept it in a shrine in her home, where it was visited by many people.  Tchaikovsky visited her when he was in Paris in June 1886, and said that when looking at the manuscript, he was "in the presence of divinity".  So it is not surprising that the centenary of the opera in 1887 would inspire him to write something honouring Mozart.  (Curiously, the title role in the centenary production of Don Giovanni in Prague was sung by the man who replaced Tchaikovsky in Désirée Artôt's affections, her husband, the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos.) He wrote the work in the summer of 1887 at a spa town in the Caucasus, where he went to cure a supposed liver complaint.

Tchaikovsky had hoped in Mozartiana to recreate "the past in a contemporary world", as he wrote his publisher P. Jurgenson. However, he never did rework the music in his own style as did Stravinsky, or do anything to enhance Mozart's music. The one movement that posterity has viewed as falling short of Tchaikovsky's goal was the third, the Preghiera.  Tchaikovsky was not working directly from a Mozart text but from Liszt's idiosyncratic treatment of Mozart's music in "À la Chapelle Sixtine."  The result is generally regarded today as too sentimental and lush a treatment of Mozart's ethereal and tender original.

Also, while the gigue and minuet are effectively scored, Tchaikovsky's choice of them for his opening movements suggests that like many of his contemporaries he failed to make enough distinction between Mozart's lighter and more profound sides. The final variations are more successful, as he can indulge in colorful scoring which characterized in Tchaikovsky's manner some aspects Mozart explored with this theme.  Even then, Mozart appears to represent the prettiness of the baroque rather than something deeper. Tchaikovsky's apparent inability to see the real power and variety of Mozart's music may have been part of his psychological need to regard the past with wistfulness and associate it with lost purity and felicity. This inevitably committed him to a view that proved merely sentimental.

Legacy
A number of later composers have titled pieces ending in -ana or -iana, as a way of paying tribute to other composers or performers.  For a comprehensive list, see -ana.

George Balanchine's 1981 ballet Mozartiana is set to Tchaikovsky's work.

References

Bibliography
Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music (New York: Pegasus Books, 2007).  .
Warrack, John, Tchaikovsky (New York: Charles Schirmer's Sons, 1973). SBN 684-13558-2.

External links

Tchaikovsky Research

Suites by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Compositions for symphony orchestra
1887 compositions
Mozartiana
Arrangements of classical compositions
Compositions in G major
Works based on Don Giovanni


David Kemp or Dave Kemp may refer to:
 David Kemp (Australian scientist) (1945–2013), plant geneticist and parasitologist
 David Kemp (cyclist) (born 1984), Australian former road bicycle race
 David Kemp (physicist) (born 1945), British physicist, discoverer of otoacoustic emission
 David Kemp (politician) (born 1941), Australian politician
  (born 1945), British sculptor
 Dave Kemp (born 1953), English footballer and manager

See also

 Davie Kemp


Assane N'Diaye (August 1, 1974 – February 13, 2008) was a football defender from Senegal. As well as playing in the centre of defence, N'Diaye was accomplished as a defensive midfielder. His main footballing attributes were mostly physical, his strength and pace in particular, however he also was an unnervingly accurate passer. He played a key role for Shakhtar Donetsk during their first league win in 2002. Around the time of his move to Shakhtar, he was very highly rated and great things were expected of him. His attributes on  Championship Manager 01/02 in particular, showed his perceived potential. However, one of the criticisms directed at N'Diaye was his supposed lack of passion and determination, something which may have halted his ascent to the top level of football.

He died in 2008 after a short illness at the age of 33.

References

External links
Profile on Shakhtar Donetsk fan site (Russian)
Interview (Russian)
Obituary (French)

1974 births
2008 deaths
Senegalese men's footballers
Senegal men's international footballers
2000 African Cup of Nations players
FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players
Men's association football defenders
ASC Jeanne d'Arc players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Senegalese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine


"Crazy Love" is a song written and recorded by Paul Anka in 1958.  It was released by ABC-Paramount Records as a single with the song, "Let the Bells Keep Ringing", on the b-side.
Anka performed the song on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Show on April 5, 1957.

"Let the Bells Keep Ringing" reached number 4 in the Canadian CHUM Charts.

The spanish adaptation of this song sounds in a film I am Cuba (1964).

References

1957 songs
1958 singles
Paul Anka songs
Songs written by Paul Anka


Greg Kulz (born 1963) is an American tattoo artist. He is based in San Francisco, California.

Biography
Greg Kulz grew up in Fallsburg, New York and Florence, Italy. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute.

He helped pioneer the modern primitive movement. He is one of the first tattoo artists to specialize in biomechanical tattooing. He is also known for pioneering the tattoo inks that glow in a dark light and the ones that glow in the dark.

He became famous through being featured in V. Vale and Andrea Juno's book Modern Primitives.

References

External links
 Official website (archive)

Living people
1963 births
American tattoo artists
People from Fallsburg, New York
San Francisco Art Institute alumni


Tadeusz Stefan Gajcy (; 8 February 1922, Warsaw - 16 August 1944, Warsaw) alias Karol Topornicki”, „Roman Oścień”, „Topór”, „Orczyk“ , was a Polish poet, playwright, editor-in-chief of the Sztuka i Naród (Art and Nation) periodical, member of the Confederation of the Nation, soldier of the Home Army.

He was born on 8 February 1922 on Dzika Street in Warsaw. His ancestors on his father's side came to Poland from Hungary, which is why several forms of the poet's polonized family name exist in documents (Gajc, Gajca, Gaycy, Gajczy). Tadeusz's parents were Stefan Gajcy and Irena Gajcy, née Zmarzlik. Gajcy's father was a telegraphist during the Polish-Bolshevik war and after the war, he worked as a locksmith in the Railway Repair Plant in Warsaw's Praga district. His mother was a midwife in a hospital and had roots in the landed gentry. In her free time, she carried out social and charitable activities, which won her respect and recognition both at work and among the local population. His mother's brother Stanislaw Zmarzlik was a very talented dancer who achieved artistic success in Western Europe and the USA under the stage name Stanley Barry. Tadeusz also had a younger brother called Mieczysław. They grew up in a classical multigenerational family as his mother's parents also lived at home.

He discovered his talent for poetry already as a child, and he tied his future to poetry. He attended primary school in Stawki Street, at the same time serving as an altar boy in the Church of St. John of God. He finished school with a good result, with the best marks in the humanities and the weakest in mathematics. He then attempted an exam at Tadeusz Czacki Grammar and Secondary School. Despite a sufficient grade, he was not admitted to this school due to a lack of places. Eventually, he became a pupil of the Marian Fathers' Middle and High School in Bielany. The Marian Fathers' School was famous for its rigorousness and for placing a great emphasis on the patriotic and pro-social education of young people. Some of the teaching staff made no secret of their National Democracy views. For this reason, despite the official dissociation of the Marian Fathers from politics, the school was a very popular place of education for young people influenced by the national movement. After the outbreak of the war, the Marian Center in Bielany was the main point of support for the Konfederacja Narodu's [Confederate of Nation] activity in Warsaw.

During the following years of his secondary school education, he achieved increasingly better marks, especially in the humanities. In the fourth grade, next to Wojciech Jaruzelski, Tadeusz was the best student in the Polish language. In June 1939, after passing the so-called Little Baccalaureate, he was admitted to the humanities department of the High School. During this period, he began to write poems, which the author considered worthy of permanent preservation. His works from this period, as Andrzej Tauber-Ziółkowski underlines, were unusually serious, mature and philosophical for the age of sixteen. In the summer of 1939, Gajcy submitted several poems to the editors of Prosto z mostu (Straight from the Bridge), the most widely read socio-cultural weekly at the end of the interwar period. The editor, Stanisław Piasecki, promised to publish them in autumn in a special insert containing debut poems of teenage "verse-poets". Before others, Gajcy had read the classics of world literature: the works of Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Anton Chekhov, Jarosław Haszek and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Above all, however, he was interested in contemporary poetry, created by Żagarists and Jerzy Liebert, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Władysław Sebyła, Wojciech Bąk, Czesław Miłosz, Józef Czechowicz and Józef Łobodowski.

On the day the war broke out, he was supposed to start learning in the first year of secondary school, but instead, as a member of the school's Military Training Troop, he reported to the military authorities with a request to be drafted into the fighting army. Having received a refusal, and in accordance with a radio announcement by Colonel Roman Umiatowski appealing to men capable of carrying weapons to march East, he left Warsaw. He reached Włodawa on the Bug river. He returned to Warsaw after the capitulation of the capital. He decided to return to education, but unfortunately the teaching staff of the Marian Fathers were temporarily arrested, and then the German authorities decided to teach Poles only at the elementary and vocational school level. Gajcy therefore began his education in secret classes. During his studies, he avoided German repression thanks to resistance cells that intercepted a letter written by his friend from the secret classes denouncing them to the Gestapo. During this period, Gajcy was mostly preoccupied with studying the history of literature. Professor Edmund Jankowski, a post-war researcher at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, prepared him for his maturity exam. The professor remembered him as an arrogant, self-confident and nonchalant young man, but at the same time extremely talented and intelligent. Gajcy wanted his matriculation exam to be a ticket to underground studies in Polish philology at the University of Warsaw. In the meantime, he diligently studied German and began translating classical works from this language. Experts comparing analogous translations of works translated by Czesław Miłosz or Marian Hemar emphasized the superiority of Gajcy.  He passed his maturity exam in the spring of 1941. Admitted to the Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, he drew his knowledge from the most eminent Polish humanists: Julian Krzyżanowski, Władysław Tatarkiewicz or Zofia Szmydtowa. In the opinion of the academic staff, he was a diligent student.

Parallel to his studies, Gajcy also sought contact with the underground press, in the pages of which he wanted to publish his works. Eventually, he succumbed to the charisma and personality of Wacław Bojarski, editor-in-chief of the SiN periodical, with whom Władysław Bartoszewski had introduced him.  The KN set up SiN in order to have a broad influence on academic and literary circles. The organisation of the magazine was a joint work of Włodzimierz Pietrzak, head of the propaganda and political department of the KN, and Onufry Bronisław Kopczyński, a poet and composer, who became the first editor of SiN. The magazine's editorial board included eminent artists of the younger generation, both ideologically linked to the KN and those mentioned above: Kopiczyński, Pietrzak and Zdzisław Stroiński, Wojciech Mencel, Tadeusz Sołtan, Stanisław Marczak-Oborski, Lesław Bartelski. Young people from elite homes, whose parents often represented completely different political views, e.g. Leszek Kostek-Biernacki was the son of Waclaw Kostka Biernacki, joined the KN.

After joining the organisational structures, Gajcy took an active part in secret literary meetings, where readings and discussions were held and even theatre performances were staged. The meetings were attended by young people across ideological divides. Around 1942, he took up the post of a reporter in a newspaper published by the KN Nowa Polska-Wiadomości Codzienne (New Poland – Daily News). His first piece was published in combined issues 3-4 dated VIII-IX 1942. In 1943, starting from issue no. 6, the number of his texts in SiN increased significantly. At the same time, he wrote for other magazines: such as Kultura Jutra (Culture of Tomorrow), Prawda Młodych (Truth of theYouth), Dźwigary (Levers), and Biuletyn Informacyjny (News Bulletin).

In October 1942 the Information Bulletin of the KN announced a competition for a soldier's march, which Gajcy won with his song Uderzenie [Strike], to which Jan Ekier wrote the music. In his subsequent texts published in SiN, Gajcy criticised the milieu of the Skamander group for its disrespectful attitude towards the state and national alienation: "Skamander, if it spoke about the state, spoke rhetorically or mockingly (Tuwim's poems about the state), but one can find in this mocking, perverse tone the quiet tragedy of people who had learned to 'be Poles'.(...) As an elite they were criticised for leaving the nation to its fate at a time of war disaster looming over Poland.

He did not stop with the publication of literary and critical works and at the same time got involved in editorial work and the distribution of the magazine. He soon became friends with his organisational colleague Zdzisław Stroiński, who owed him the promotion of his own literary work. In the article Sztuka a państwo [Art and the State] co-written with Bojarski, the authors analysed the place and role of art in states which, according to them, had the features of a strong or weak state. They criticised the Polish state from the period before the Sanation government, which they considered to be ideology-free.

The propaganda action in which Gajcy participated with Bojarski and Stroiński ended tragically. On 25 May 1943, on the 400th anniversary of the death of Nicolaus Copernicus, they laid a wreath at his monument in Warsaw. The sash of the wreath was decorated with the inscription: "To the Genius of the Slavs - Compatriots". The action was intended to remind the occupying forces that, contrary to the German nationality attributed to Copernicus, he was a Pole and a Slav. The photographic material from the action was to be sent to London and then used for propaganda purposes. The photographers were surprised by so called Blue Policeman, Gajcy reacted nervously, as a result of which Bojarski was shot and died ten days later, while Stroiński was arrested, beaten up and sent to the Pawiak prison. After the death of his colleague, for which he made himself responsible, Gajcy fell into depression. However, Bojarski himself was to be blamed for the failure of the action, as he was its originator and its fatal executor. Although Gajcy understood the need to differentiate between being an artist and being a soldier, just like the entire SiN and KN milieu, he sought a place for himself as a militarised poet, disciplined, mentally strong, and brave, the one who influences not only through his artistic work, but at the same time is ready to lead a unit into battle, which is doomed to failure in advance, but is in line with the ideal of commitment and combat.

Gajcy associated himself ideologically with the political message of the KN and its philosophy based on the idea of universalism, building the Slavic Empire under Polish leadership on the ruins of the two occupying powers, criticising democracy, as well as the pre-war Sanation rule. However, as editor of SiN, he himself placed much less emphasis on ideological accents in the magazine than his predecessors. A critical attitude to the culture of the inter-war period was contained in his sketch Już nie potrzebujemy ["We do not need it any more"] and the essay O wawrzyn ["For the laurel"]. In the article Historia i czyn [History and Action], he shared with his readers his observations on the destructive influence of war on culture. The famous poem Wczorajszemu [To the Yesterday’s] became a prologue to Gajcy's wartime poetic work, which was inspired by the work of Władysław Sebyla, poet, soldier of September 1939, murdered by the NKVD in Kharkov. For this poem in 1942 Gajcy received a prize in the SiN competition announced in June 1942. In October 1943he  published his drama Misterium niedzielne [Sunday Mystery], which contained elements of grotesque and satire. Through it, Gajcy criticized the lack of realism among the inhabitants of the capital and the ease with which people became followers of utopian ideas. He criticized Polish vices, the Sanation delusion of military power and the Polish Navy-Blue Police.

After the death of  Trzebiński, the third editor-in-chief of SiN, despite the suggestions of his surroundings, he decided to direct the magazine. He realised the scale of the threat but believed that the sacrifices of his deceased colleagues cannot be wasted. He also continued to work within the Cultural Movement established by Trzebiński. In order to increase the scope of the Movement's influence, he held talks with Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński with a view to recruiting him into the organisation's structures. It was difficult for Gajcy to keep up with the pace of work of his predecessors, as he was first and foremost a poet, and not a theoretician like them, which is why the magazine under his leadership departed from political journalism in favour of content of typically artistic value. He strengthened cooperation with literary circles associated with the magazines: Dźwigary [Levers], Droga [Way], and established contact with the underground literary circles from Kraków. He managed to widen the circle of publicists and improve the visual quality of the magazine.

As emphasized by the literary critic Jan Marx, among the "sacrificial national-messianic romanticism" created by the SiN circle, it is most fully expressed by Gajcy, who, with the passage of time and the approaching victory of the Allies in the war, visionarily perceived that for Poland the end of the war with Germany would not be the end of its drama. That is why in his catastrophic poetic visions, he hints at the search for his own death as a sacrifice in the face of the hopelessness of the situation. Like Trzebiński and Bojarski, he criticised the literary output of the interwar period, writing: "The eclecticism and timidity of the infantile literary twentieth century is to become for us a history that teaches and warns us". Like the entire SiN milieu, Gajcy expected a creative output engaged in the current problems of the nation, a creative output capable of looking far ahead in terms of its needs and threats. In the poem Z dna [From the Bottom], which was most probably written in September 1941, he used motifs typical of the occupation poetry, with the use of patriotic and soldierly lyricism. The work contains references to both battle of Grunwald and the most heroic battles of September 1939, as well as to Romuald Traugutt, whose greatness was nurtured by a museum established by the Marian Fathers' school, which he attended. In turn, the poem Widma [Spectres] contains very strongly accented references to the Old and New Testaments. In an apocalyptic and visionary way Gajcy described the destruction of Warsaw. The Skamander group of poets was criticized for infantilism and shallowness. As Jan Marx emphasizes,. of the whole circle only Gajcy was consistent in his criticism, because he was the only one who did not publish works that would bear the signs of infantilism and shallowness.

Following in the footsteps of his organisational colleagues, Gajcy assigned Polish culture a leading role in the whole of Central Europe. This leadership was to be based on the expansiveness, dynamism and totality of Polish culture, which was to emanate into all significant areas of the nation's collective life. Once established in its own nation, it was to begin expanding into neighbouring nations. In order to achieve this, extensive staff structures were needed, which is why already during the war the activists of SiN conducted classes introducing the culture and language of neighbouring nations (the Czech Republic, Ukraine).

In the spring of 1944, overwhelmed by the number of duties, he decided to quit his studies, which he claimed to have been disappointed with, so he preferred to devote his time to organizational activities. Shortly before the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, he received a task to support the structures of the Home Army Information and Propaganda Bureau, so he took part in the Course for Military Press Reporters in the spring of 1944. Contrary to the guidelines, however, he decided to take part in front-line combat together with. Stroiński. Both poets wanted to enlist in Lieutenant "Ryszard's" assault group, but due to the fact that they only had a grenade and a pistol, the lieutenant initially refused to accept them. He changed his mind only after his unit had been decimated and he had to make up the shortfall. In the following days, they managed to acquire German uniforms and took part in supply operations. As time went by, however, Gajcy took part in fighting in the most dangerous sections against SS units. During the breaks in the fighting he recited his poems to the fighting insurgents.

His last poem was a commentary on the catastrophic explosion of a German booby-trapped tank on 13 August, which killed three hundred people. The macabre sight after the explosion inspired Gajcy to write a poem that was so shocking and macabre that it was not published until 1964. Two days later, in the evening, Stroiński and Gajcy went to an outpost in a passable tenement house at Przejazd 1/3 Street. During the night, German sappers reached the basement under the massive edifice and laid explosive charges. At noon the next day there was an explosion. The Germans, for the first time in the Uprising, used a coal dust attack called Typhoon. Its destructive force destroyed the tenement completely, burying both SiN men under the heaps of rubble on 16 August 1944. Gajcy was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valour. The poet's body was exhumed by his family in the spring of 1946, and only then was it finally established where he had fallen. He was buried in the insurgents' quarters in the military Powazki cemetery. In his work, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz referred to the circumstances of Gajcy's and Stroiński's deaths, writing in the poem Niepogrzebani [The Unburied]: "Two poets rose like flares into the air".

Just after the war, Gajcy's drama Homer i Orchideja [Homer and the Orchid] was one of the three most frequently performed plays. Gradually, however, the attacks on the creators of SiN, for belonging to the KN, intensified. Paradoxically, this organisation, whose more than 700 members gave their lives in the fight against the Germans and the Soviets, was considered fascist by the literati serving the Stalinist authorities. Czesław Miłosz, who was in exile, also spoke critically about Gajcy's attitude during the war and wrote the following about the SiN millieu "I admit that I did not have the slightest sympathy for the magazine itself, the articles published there seemed to me pathetic and gibberish", and in the poem Ballada [Ballad] he wrote about Gajcy as the one who was "defending an unjust cause".

On 2 August 2009 the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński posthumously awarded Gajcy with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his outstanding contribution to the independence of the Republic of Poland, for his achievements in the development of Polish culture. In July 2009 a coin with the face value of 10 zloty made in silver with a gold-plated ring commemorating Gajcy was put into circulation.

See also
List of Polish-language poets

References

External links

 Tadeusz Gajcy at Culture.pl
 Tadeusz Gajcy's poems at poezja.org
 Collection dedicated to Tadeusz Gajcy in digital library Polona

1922 births
1944 deaths
Writers from Warsaw
Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery
Polish Roman Catholics
Home Army members
Warsaw Uprising insurgents
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
20th-century Polish poets
Polish civilians killed in World War II