Dihan Slabbert (born 3 June 1982), is a South African singer, performer, composer, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known as one of the lead vocalists in the South African pop group, Hi-5.

Career
Dihan sang at an early age, as a member of the Northern Gauteng Youth Choir. In 2000, he wrote, produced and staged his first musical production, appropriately named, "Debut." He graduated from the University of Pretoria with a Bcom in Tourism Management.

In 2003, competing against 120 young men, he was selected to become a member of boy-band Hi-5.  During his years performing and touring with the group, he received several awards, including the ATKV Crescendo songwriting contest, Africa Vision, the Geraas award for best music video ("Kinders van die Wind"), as well as two Naledi Theatre Award nominations for the sold-out run of Oh Boy! at the Sound Stage Theatre. He recorded the Blue Bulls' new anthem "Een Hart Een Droom" as a single, and sang it in their home stadium.  His "Time After Time", hit the number one spot on Highveld Stereo, a popular Johannesburg radio station. He was a guest artist in Nataniël and Friends at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

He has worked with South African music industry's high profile artists, including performer Nataniël, director Richard Loring, and choreographer-director Tyrone Watkins.   In 2005, he recorded "Songbird" as a duet with Nataniël.

The launch of Dihan's solo career was in 2006. His second self-produced one-man show, Prinz. was presented in English and Afrikaans. He released his first solo single and CD, The Lava Song, a quartet of ballads, including  "Silwermaan", in which he showcases his own piano rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".

Dihan made guest appearances on South African TV programs such as Backstage, 7de Laan, Free Talk, Geraas, Kwela, Fiesta and Saterdagnag Laat.

Dihan was lead vocalist and performer in several of Tyrone Watkins' musical productions, including Out Of This World, Let's Party and Bollywood Blitz. He starred in the 80's Sensation at The Performer Theatre in Pretoria. He is currently a member of the pop-classical male vocal group, "Il Quinto."

Discography

Singles
 "Een Hart Een Droom", Hi-5 (2003)
 "Soebat", Hi-5 (2003)
"Kinders van die Wind", Hi-5 (2004)
"Time After Time", Hi-5 (2004)
 "Shnappi", Hi-5 (2005)
 "The Lava Song" (2006)

Albums
 Hi-5, self-titled (2004)
 The Lava Song (2006)

Compilations
 Accapêlle, various artists (2005)
 Fashion, Nataniël (2005)
 Die Crescendo-Supersterre, various artists (2006)
 God Bless the Child, various artists (2007)

DVDs
Live at The Centurion Theatre, Rina Hugo (2005)
By Birth, Nataniël (2006)

Music Videos
"Kinders van die Wind", Hi-5
"Time After Time", Hi-5

Theatre productions
 Debut, solo production (2000)
 Oh-Boy!  (2004)
 Afrikiti (2005)
 Accapêlle (2005)
 The Moses Machine, with Nataniël and Kyle Grant (2006)
 Prinz, solo production (2006)
 Out of this World (2006)
 Bollywood Blitz (2006)
 Let's Party (2007)
 Houtkruis die Musical (2008)
 80's Sensation (2008)

References

External links
Dihan Slabbert at Facebook
Dihan Slabbert Fan Site

1982 births
Living people
Musicians from Pretoria
South African male composers
21st-century South African male singers
South African pop singers
University of Pretoria alumni


Felton Fenwick Legere (18 September 1913 – 15 August 1963) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

He was born in Stoney Island, Nova Scotia, the son of Aldric Legere and Evangeline Amirault. He was a lobster merchant by career.

He was first elected at the Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare riding in the 1958 general election and re-elected there in the 1962 election. Legere left federal politics in 1963 after completing his term in the 25th Canadian Parliament.

He died on August 15, 1963, at his home in Pinkney's Point after suffering a heart attack.

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1913 births
1963 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs


The Series ALFA Steel is a series of Czech-made revolvers designed for sport shooting and personal defense needs, and for users who favor the .32 S&W Long and .38 Special cartridges. The ALFA Series Steel is part of the three revolver series made by ALFA: Series ALFA, Series ALFA Steel, and Series HOLEK. All the Series ALFA Steel revolvers have blued finishes, and the only four models not to have a chrome finish are the four Sport models.

Models
The Series ALFA Steel revolver models can be broken down into five groups (by caliber):
.22 WMR Models, .22 LR Models, .32 Long S&W Models, .38 Special, and 9mm Luger Models. Each caliber has varied cylinder capacities.

.22 WMR

.22 LR

.32 S&W Long

.38 Special

9mm Luger

 9mm Luger cartridge needs shorter cylinder so barrels are longer approximately by 9mm to reach the cylinder

See also
ALFA Combat
ALFA Defender
List of firearms
Series ALFA

References
 Product Page for .22 LR and .22 WMR Models
 Product Page for .32 Long S&W and .38 Special Models
 Product Page for 9mm luger Models (czech language)

Revolvers of Czechoslovakia
.22 LR revolvers
Revolvers


Holly Sklar (born 1955) is an author and syndicated columnist for Z Magazine, a policy analyst, and strategist whose articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers and online outlets including The Nation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today.

Biography
Sklar is the founder and CEO of Business For a Fair Minimum Wage, "a national network of business owners and executives who believe a fair minimum wage makes good business sense." She also serves on the board of directors of the American Sustainable Business Council.

From 1975 to 1976, Sklar lived and worked in an agricultural region of Bolivia. In 1978 she accepted an invitation to join the steering committee of the national conference taking place October that year, Women and Global Corporations: Work, Roles, and Resistance.

On October 13, 2000, Sklar spoke at the New Jersey Project's fall conference entitled Now You See It, Now You Don't: Class in America at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey.

Sklar earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College and her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.

Writing
Sklar read several drafts of Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons in preparation for publishing.

Works

Books
Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980). . . Excerpts.
 Washington's War on Nicaragua. Boston: South End Press (1988). .
Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, with Peter Medoff. Boston: South End Press (1994). .
Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. Boston: South End Press (1995). .
Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap. Boston: United for a Fair Economy (1999). .
Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us, with Laryssa Mykyta & Susan Wefald. Boston: South End Press (2001). .
A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers, Business, and Our Future, with Rev. Paul H. Sherry. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee and the National Council of Churches USA (Oct. 2005). .

Articles
 "Responses to Michael Massing: The U.S. Left and Nicaragua." The Nation (Apr. 20, 1985), p. 460.
 "Reading Nicaragua." The Nation (Sep. 7, 1985), pp. 185-192.
 "Out of Africa." The Nation (Jan. 25, 1986), p. 87.
 "Still Alive, Contadora Challenges Cold War." In These Times (Apr. 8, 1987), p. 17.
 "Rainbow Future." The Nation, vol. 248, no. 4 (Jan. 30, 1989), pp. 113–114.
 "The N.E.D.'s Ex-Nazi Adviser: Harbinger of Democracy?" (with Chip Berlet). The Nation (Apr. 2, 1990), pp. 450-457.
 "N.E.D., C.I.A., and the Orwellian Democracy Project" (with Chip Berlet). CovertAction Information Bulletin, no. 39 (Winter 1991), pp. 10–13. Full issue.
 "An Economic Bill of Rights." Earth Island Journal, vol. 11, no. 4 (Fall 1996), p. 39.
 "Titans of the Enron Economy: The Ten Habits Of Highly Defective Corporations." The Nation (Jul. 18, 2002).
 "Wall Street Has Already Voted." Z Magazine (Nov. 1, 2010).

Book contributions
 "Trilateralism: Managing Dependence and Democracy." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 1–58. . .
 "Founding the Trilateral Commission: Chronology 1970-1977." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 76–82. . .
 "The Commission's Purpose, Structure, and Programs: In Its Own Words." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 83–89. . .
 "Who's Who on the Trilateral Commission." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 90–122. . .
 "Trilateralism and the Management of Contradictions." In: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston: South End Press (1980), pp. 555–586. . .
 "Increasing the Minimum Wage Can Help the Working Poor." In: Poverty: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by Karen Balkin. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press (2004), pp. 126–129. .
"Imagine a Country." In: Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study, by Paula Rothenberg. New York: Worth Publishers (2010), pp. 284–289.
 "Raising Minimum Wage Does Not Increase Unemployment." In: Unemployment, edited by David M. Haugen and Megan Susser. Detroit, Mich.: Greenhaven Press (2011), pp. 60–66. .

Pamphlets
 Poverty in the American Dream: Women & Children First. INC Pamphlet, no. 1. New York: Institute for New Communications (1983). . .
 Plant Closures: Myths, Realities, and Responses, no. 3. Boston: South End Press (1985). . .
 Reagan, Trilateralism, and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention in the 1980s, no. 4. Boston: South End Press (1986). . .
Titans of the Enron Economy: The Ten Habits of Highly Defective Corporations, with Scott Klinger. Boston: United for a Fair Economy (Apr. 10, 2002).

Posters
Who's Who in the Reagan Administration. Boston: South End Press (1981). .

Reports
Jobs, Income, and Work: Ruinous Trends, Urgent Alternatives. Community Relations Division (Mar. 1995). .

Filmography
 Cold Warriors: The Trilateral Commission [Documentary] (1984).
 Holly Sklar on Wages and Work [Interview]. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS (Jun. 13, 2008).
 Watch online. View transcript.

References

External links
 Holly Sklar at Internet Archive
 Holly Sklar interviews at Alternative Radio

American women journalists
Living people
1955 births
21st-century American women


The static buoyancy of airships in flight is not constant. It is therefore necessary to control the altitude of an airship by controlling its buoyancy:  buoyancy compensation.

Changes which have an effect on buoyancy

 Changes in air temperature (and thus the density of air)
 Changes in lifting gas temperature (for example, the heating of the hull by the sun).
 Accumulation of additional ballast (for example, precipitation or icing on the envelope)
 Changes in ballast (for example, during a flight maneuver or the dropping of ballast)
 Changes in weight of fuel on board, due to fuel consumption. This was a challenge especially in the large historic airships like the Zeppelins.

For example, on a flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, the rigid airship LZ 126, built in 1923-24, used 23,000 kg gasoline and 1300 kg of oil (an average consumption of 290 kg/100 km). During the landing the airship had to release approximately 24,000 cubic meters of hydrogen to balance the ship before landing it. A Zeppelin of the size of the LZ 129 Hindenburg on a flight from Frankfurt am Main to Lakehurst consumed approximately 54 tonnes of diesel with a buoyancy equivalent of 48,000 cubic metres of hydrogen, which amounted to about a quarter of the lifting gas used at the start of the flight (200,000 cubic metres). After the landing, the jettisoned hydrogen was replaced with new hydrogen.

Compensation measures

 Particular use of the dynamic buoyancy, see lift and drag.
 Increasing buoyancy by dropping ballast. This is done mostly by the jettisoning of ballast water similar to the dropping of sandbags in ballooning.
 The reduction of buoyancy by jettisoning lift gas or adding ballast.
 The reduction of buoyancy by compressing lift gas into pressurized tanks while taking air from the surrounding atmosphere into the vacant space
 Changing the density of the lifting gas by heating (more buoyancy) or cooling (less buoyancy).
 The use of vacuum/air buoyancy compensator tanks
 The use of thrust vectoring using ducted fans or propellers.
The Zeppelin NT has no special facilities to offset the extra buoyancy by fuel consumption. Compensation takes place by using a start-weight that is higher than the buoyancy lifting level at the start and during the flight, the extra dynamic buoyancy needed for lift-off and flight is produced with engines. If, during the trip, the ship becomes lighter than air because of fuel consumption, the swivel engines are used for down pressure and landing. The relatively small size of the Zeppelin NT and a range of only 900 kilometers compared to the historical Zeppelins allowed the waiver of a ballast extraction device.

Buoyancy compensation
With a rigid airship two main strategies are pursued to avoid the venting of lifting gas:

1. The use of a fuel with the same density as air and therefore no increase in buoyancy caused by consumption.
2. Adding water as ballast by extraction during the trip.

Fuel with a density close to air
Only gasses have a density similar or equal to air.

Hydrogen
Different attempts were made on hydrogen airships: the LZ 127 and LZ 129 to use part of the lifting gas as a propellant without much success, later ships filled with helium lacked this option.

Blaugas
Around 1905, Blau gas was a common propellant for airships; it is named after its inventor the Augsburger chemist Hermann Blau who produced it in the Augsburger Blau gas plant. Various sources mention a mixture of propane and butane. Its density was 9% heavier than air. Zeppelins often used a different gas mixture of propylene, methane, butane, acetylene (ethyne), butylene and hydrogen.

The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin had bi-fuel engines, and could use gasoline and Blau gas as a propellant. Twelve of the vessel's gas cells were filled with a propellant gas instead of lifting gas with a total volume of 30,000 cubic metres, enough for approximately 100 flight hours.
The fuel tank had a gasoline volume of 67 flight hours. Using both gasoline and Blau gas, one could achieve 118 hours of cruise time.

Water as ballast

Dew and rainfall on the hull
In some airships rain gutters were fitted to the hull to collect rainwater to fill the ballast water tanks during flight. However, this procedure is weather dependent and is therefore not reliable as a standalone measure.

Water from the ground
Captain Ernst A. Lehmann described how during World War I Zeppelins could temporarily remain at the sea surface by loading ballast water into tanks in the gondolas. In 1921 the airships LZ 120 "Bodensee" and LZ 121 "Nordstern" tested the possibility on Lake Constance to use lake water to create ballast. These attempts, however, showed no satisfactory results.

Silica-gel method
The silica gel method was tested on the LZ 129 to extract water from the humid air to increase weight. The project was terminated.

Water from fuel combustion

The most promising procedure for ballast extraction during the journey is condensation of the engines' exhaust gasses, which consist mainly of water vapour and carbon dioxide. The main factors affecting gainable water are the hydrogen content of the fuel and humidity. The necessary exhaust gas coolers for this method had repeated problems with corrosion in the early years.

The first trials on the DELAG-Zeppelin LZ 13 Hansa (1912–1916) were conducted by Wilhelm Maybach. The trials were not satisfactory, resulting in the project's termination.

The USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (1923–25) was the first airship with ballast water recovered from the condensation of exhaust gas. Prominent vertical slots in the airship's hull acted as exhaust condensers. A similar system was used on her sister ship, USS Akron (ZRS-4). The German-made USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) was also fitted with exhaust gas coolers to prevent jettisoning of the costly helium.

Lifting gas temperature
Changes in the lifting gas temperature in relation to the surrounding air have an effect on the buoyancy balance: higher temperatures increase buoyancy; lower temperatures decrease buoyancy. Artificially changing the lifting gas temperature requires constant work as the gas is barely thermally isolated from the surrounding air. However, it was common to make use of natural differences in temperature such as thermal updrafts and clouds.

Preheated lifting gas
Preheated lifting gas was tested to offset the higher weight of the Zeppelin. One variation tested on the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was to blow heated air on the lifting gas storage cells with the aim to gain buoyancy for launch.

Lifting gas density
It is possible to change the density of a volume of lifting gas by compressing it with a Ballonet.  Basically a balloon inside a balloon that can be pumped full of outside air from the surrounding atmosphere.

See also
Aerostat
Blimp
Loon (company)

References

External links
Patentschrift zum Auftreibsausgleich durch Kondensation und Verdampfung von Wasserdampf (German)

Airship technology
Buoyancy devices


Sir Shri Ram (also Lala Shri Ram; 27 April 1884 – 11 January 1963) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He was the son of Rai Bahadur Ram Kishen Das Gurwale, the founder of the Delhi Cloth & General Mills, which remains one of the oldest firms in India today.

Early life
Sir Shri Ram was born on April 27, 1884. The first son of Madan Mohan Lal and Chando Devi. He belonged to an Agarwal family of Haryana. Sir Shri Ram got most of his early education from a Municipal Primary School in Bazaar Sita Ram. He matriculated in March 1900 and later got himself enrolled in the Intermediate Arts course at Hindu College.

Sir Shri Ram began as a humble worker and went on to set up one of India's largest business houses - the DCM Group. Born into a family of modest means, Shri Ram, in the 79 years of his life, built an industrial empire manufacturing a vast variety of goods like - textiles, sugar, chemicals, vanaspati, pottery, fans, sewing machines, electric motors, and capacitors.

Sir Shri Ram, the man who made DCM a household name, entrusting the business to his two sons- Bharat Ram and Charat Ram. (His eldest son, Murli Dhar died in a plane crash near Karachi immediately after Independence in 1949. DCM used to run a textile mill at Lyallpur, which was under Murli Dhar's charge; he was on the flight from Lyallpur to Karachi to buy jewellery for his son Shri Dhar's wedding and perished in the accident along with his wife.)

Career
When Sir Shri Ram was born, Delhi Cloth and General Mills was just a pipe-dream. His uncle, Lala Gopal Rai, had been playing with the idea of a textile mill for some time. Still, he was only a munim - a kind of private secretary - working in a pedhi, though his family was fairly well-to-do, if not exactly affluent. However, things started moving within a few years of Shri Ram's birth. The Lahore Tribune carried the brief news items in its issue of February 28, 1891, under the heading, "Local and Provincial"- The opening ceremony of Delhi Cloth and General Mills Co Ltd will take place on Monday 2 March at 3 pm.

The story of DCM is essentially the story of its secretaries. Later the work was taken over by the managing agents who virtually controlled and ran the company. Sir Shri Ram appears on the scene first in 1905 (at the age of 21) when he attended an Annual General Meeting with his uncle (Lala Gopal Rai, Founder and First Secretary of Delhi Cloth and General Mills). The uncle died the same year and Shri Ram's father, Madan Mohan Lal, was appointed in his place.

Four years later in 1909, Sir Shri Ram was joined the company as an apprentice in the Accounts Department under Munim Ram Path; without a formal title but with sufficient authority to act on his father's behalf. He was then 25 years old. He ran the company with his father for another decade after that, but the latter slowly faded out, and Sir Shri Ram assumed full formal charge.
Sir Shri Ram had persuaded his father to enter into a big contract for the supply of tents for the British Army during First World War (1914–18) and they had earned a lot of money quickly. The father-and-son combine is said to have netted between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, a lot of money in those days, the bulk of which was used in buying DCM shares. The commissions they obtained on the tent deal were not given under the table. Under a three-way contract between themselves, the company and an agent, they were entitled to receive 20 per cent of profits from the deal while the company received 50 per cent. It was Sir Shri Ram's idea and he used the money to increase his holding in the company from less than 5 per cent to 16 per cent (and to 20 per cent by 1925).

In less than eight years after he gained control, Sir Shri Ram had raised the fixed capital, buildings and machinery, from Rs 11 lakh to Rs 43 lakh and pushed up sales more than fivefold, from Rs 16 lakh to Rs 91 lakh. Profits increased from Rs 3 lakh in 1921 to Rs 18 lakh in 1929.  Sir Shri Ram parlayed the DCM Ltd with an assets totaling Rs 55 crore by 1963, the year he passed away.

SIR SHRI RAM’S CONTRIBUTION IN NATION BUILDING:

Education:

As far back in 1920, Sir Shri Ram had decided to conduct the first experiment in vocation-oriented education by founding the Commercial Education Trust. The first school taken over by Commercial Education Trust was the Commercial High School. His Association with the Trust continued right up to the end of his life. The Commercial High School was raised in 1926 to the standard of an Intermediate College, in 1930 to a degree college, and in 1934 to a post-graduate College. In 1942, Sir Shri Ram became the Chairman of the Governing Body of the college. By 1948, although comparatively young among the colleges of Delhi University, the Commercial College had the maximum enrolment possible under the university rules. The college offered B.A. Pass course and the B.A. Honours course in Commerce and M.A. courses in Economics and Commerce. In 1949, it was proposed to rename the college as “Shri Ram College of Commerce” but it took three year to implement it due to the reticence of Lala Shri Ram. Until 1949, the college was located at 8, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. 1950 the proposal to shift the college to the University Enclave was accepted and implemented.

Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, founded in 1947 by an illustrious founder Sir Shri Ram, started functioning in 1950. Sir Shri Ram believed that if India was to catch up with the rest of the world, it was necessary to understand existing technology and innovate it through research.

Lady Shri Ram College for Women Established in 1956 in New Delhi by the late Lala Shri Ram in memory of his wife Phoolan Devi (Lady Shri Ram), the college began in a school building in Daryaganj, Central Delhi. Today, the college is located in a 5-acre (20,000 m2) campus in Lajpat Nagar in South Delhi.

Association with other Organisation:

On 16 February 1930, he took over from G.D. Birla as 4th President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and with Mahatma Gandhi by his side, a bold gesture at that time; he had delivered his Presidential Address on 7 April 1931.

Sir Shri Ram was nominated as a member of first Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India, effective 1 January 1935.

On 2 March 1937 the Delhi Improvement Trust came into being and Sir Shri Ram became its member.

Sir Shri Ram was the member of All-India Organisation of Industrial Employers (A.O.I.E) since its inception and became the President of A.O.I.E for the year 1940 and 1941.

AWARDS AND HONOUR:

British Government in India recognized the contributions made by Sir Shriram towards the development of society and hence conferred him with a knighthood in 1941.

Death and legacy
Sir Shri Ram died in Delhi on 11 January 1963 at 79.  On the death of Sir Shri Ram, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India said, “He was not only a great industrialist but helped many good causes. His contributions to education are memorable”.

See also
 Bharat Ram
 Charat Ram
 Sumitra Charat Ram
 Bansi Dhar

References

External links
 Lady Shri Ram College history page
 Business Standard Article
 Great Lives chapter on Sir Shri Ram
 Link on the founder of Shriram College of Commerce

Bibliography
Khushwant Singh and Arun Joshi, “Shri Ram-A Biography” (1968) Asia Publishing House, Bombay

Suggested reading
 Sir Shri Ram Biography prepared by The Shri Ram Biography Project
 From the Brink of Bankruptcy: The DCM Story by Vinay-Bharat Ram
 Draft of the Biography on Sir Shri Ram written by Bhupesh Bhandari
 Lala Shri Ram: A Study in Entrepreneurship and Industrial Management by Arun Joshi
 Shri Ram, A Biography by Khushwant Singh and Arun Joshi
 How business leaders like Shri Ram inspired workers to excel, Are unions losing influence by Dayal, I (1997) [Stable URL:   https://www.jstor.org/stable/27767528]

1884 births
1963 deaths
Businesspeople from Delhi
Indian businesspeople in textiles
Indian Knights Bachelor


Thomas William  Druce (born June 18, 1961) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He represented the 144th legislative district in Bucks County.

He graduated from William Tennent High School in 1979 and from Westminster College (Pennsylvania) in 1983. He was sworn into the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1993 and was elected to four terms.

In July 1999 while driving, Druce struck and killed 42-year-old Harrisburg pedestrian Kenneth Cains, a former US Marine. He was convicted and served time for this offense.

Death of Kenneth Cains
In July 1999, while driving, Druce struck and killed 42-year-old Harrisburg pedestrian Kenneth Cains, a former United States Marine.

After attempting to cover his tracks by repairing his Jeep SUV, filing a false accident claim with his insurance company and lying to police, Druce eventually pled guilty to a hit and run for leaving the scene of an accident, as well as insurance fraud and tampering with evidence.

Although he admitted to a night of drinking before the hit-and-run, he was able to avoid additional drunk driving charges because too much time had passed to test his blood-alcohol level. He was sentenced to two to four years at SCI Laurel Highlands.

This crime was the subject of an episode of Forensic Files titled "Capitol Crimes".

Later
According to the information Druce posted on the LinkedIn site, as of February 2020, he worked as the principal of Phoenix Strategy Group, "a research and public policy firm" and doing business development for Pennsylvania Water Specialities Company.

References

Living people
1961 births
Westminster College (Pennsylvania) alumni
Politicians from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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American politicians convicted of fraud


Christina Stresemann (born 1957) is a judge at the Federal Court of Justice of Germany.

Until 2003, Stresemann worked at the District Court in Berlin, in the Berlin State Ministry of Justice and at the Chamber's Court in Cologne.

Stresemann was the personal secretary of Jutta Limbach, then Berlin Senator of Justice, from 1989 to 1992. From 1995 to 1998 she was a scientific assistant to Jutta Limbach, then President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Stresemann is the daughter of Wolfgang Stresemann and granddaughter of liberal statesman Gustav Stresemann, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning German Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. Her grandmother, Gustav Stresemann's wife Käte, was Jewish.

Stresemann is married to Ingo Müller, Professor of Administration in Hamburg.

References

Jurists from Berlin
1957 births
Living people


The Wyalusing Valley Junior-Senior High School, commonly referred to as WVHS, is a Northeastern Pennsylvania public high school.  The school is operated by the Wyalusing Area School District.

Vocational opportunities
WVHS has access to a vocational school called Northern Tier Career Center (NTCC) in Towanda for students that wish to advance in a hands-on or technical career. This vocational education is available to students who are in 11th and 12th grades.

Athletics
WVHS has many school-sponsored athletic activities, including football, wrestling, basketball, (girls only) soccer, baseball, softball, track and field, volleyball, golf and cross country. In addition, there are cheerleading squads for the football and basketball teams.

Clubs
WVHS has many clubs meant to help the community or further learning outside of the classroom in a certain subject including: Yearbook, a computer club, FBLA, FHA, chorus, band, library club, orchestra, SADD, marching band, student council, ski club, Spanish club, Envirothon, Leo Club, Science Olympiad, and Youth and Government.

References

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Public high schools in Pennsylvania
Schools in Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Public middle schools in Pennsylvania


Jane Mary Dealy (1856 – 1939), known as Lady Lewis from 1904, was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books.

Born in Liverpool, she was educated at the Slade School and the Royal Academy Schools; at the latter, she won the 1880 first prize for best drawing (a silver medal and £10). She showed her works at the Royal Academy shows and at the Institute of Painters of Water Colours. She married Walter Lewis in 1887; after his knighthood, she was known as Lady Lewis.

The children's books she illustrated included The Land of Little People, Sixes and Sevens, Children's Hymns,  Children's Prayers, and The Easy-to-Read Storybook.

Dealy exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

References

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1856 births
1939 deaths
19th-century English painters
19th-century English women artists
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Artists from Liverpool
British children's book illustrators
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Wives of knights


Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park is a  public beach and city park in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at Mayport in the Jacksonville Beaches area. It consists of  of mature coastal hammock, which is increasingly rare along Florida's heavily developed Atlantic coast.

History
Part of what is now Hanna Park was formerly Manhattan Beach, Florida's first beach community for African Americans during the period of segregation in the United States. The area was intended for use by African American employees of the Florida East Coast Railway and hotels. African American entrepreneurs Mack Wilson and William Middleton, among others, contributed to making Manhattan Beach a destination for many African Americans in the South. At its height the beach included amenities such as picnic pavilions, cottages, and an amusement park. It flourished until 1932, when the East Coast Railway stopped serving its Jacksonville to northern Mayport route, ultimately preventing convenient access to the area for travelers. Around 1940, it was superseded as a day-trip destination by the larger American Beach in nearby Amelia Island.

In 1967,  of land for the park was donated by Winthrop Bancroft, who required that the land be named for Kathryn Abbey Hanna (November 8, 1895 – 1967), a Chicago-born educator and author who had settled in Florida and served on the Board of Parks and Historic Memorials.

Hanna taught at Florida State College for Women. She also wrote a history of Florida titled Florida, Land of Change.
Following the Jacksonville Consolidation, the area became part of Jacksonville. The city purchased the surrounding property in the 1970s during the administration of Mayor Hans Tanzler, expanding the park. The first general purpose trail was constructed by Michael Long in 1987 as his Eagle Scout service project. Most of the land has been left in its natural, wooded state. Boardwalks were constructed over the dunes to protect vegetation.

Features

In addition to the white sand beach on the Atlantic Ocean, the park offers:

Offroad bike trails
The park has nearly  of bicycle trails that range from easy to difficult. For experienced riders, trails named Grunt, Misery, and Tornado Alley offer a challenging workout. Sanctioned races are held on a seasonal schedule and many local cyclists ride the trails on a daily basis. This trail wins the award for "Most Difficult Close to the Sea" and was rated four out of five stars on the Trails website.

Campground
Almost 300 campsites are nestled in the woods along winding, paved roads for tent camping or RV use, plus there are six small log "cozy cabins", great for the summer.

Dolphin Plaza
The park has a beachfront facility that can be rented by groups, with a view of sand dunes and surf.

Freshwater lake
A former borrow pit for road construction in the park turned into a  freshwater lake which opened in 1978. Activities available include, fishing, kayaking, paddle boating, and canoeing; lakeside picnic tables and grills are available and scenic trails surround the lake. A water playground is provided for small children.

Other amenities
There is a visitor/interpretive center and shuffleboard and volleyball courts.  Throughout the park there are benches, grills, picnic shelters & tables, playground equipment, restrooms and trash barrels.

References

External links
 Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park web page
 Hanna Park campground map
 Hanna Park bike trails map

Culture of Jacksonville, Florida
Geography of Jacksonville, Florida
Parks in Jacksonville, Florida
1967 establishments in Florida
Protected areas established in 1967


The Color of Fame () is a 2008 Venezuelan drama film about a Marilyn Monroe poser and a transsexual who believes to be her reincarnation. The film was Venezuela's official submission for the 81st Annual Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Plot
Magaly (Elaiza Gil) enters a television contest looking for a Marilyn Monroe lookalike for a $25,000 prize. Her husband, Arturo (Alberto Arifa), believes is the best way to get through the financial crisis they are facing. As the challenge goes by, Magaly partners with Héctor (Miguel Ferrari) who believes to be the Monroe's reincarnation in a "third world transsexual man". She begins to lose her identity and follows the same downfall of the late actress.

References

External links

2008 drama films
2008 LGBT-related films
2008 films
2000s Spanish-language films
Transgender-related films
Venezuelan LGBT-related films
LGBT-related drama films


The 1991 Phoenix Cardinals season was the 72nd season the team was in the National Football League (NFL). The team failed to improve on their previous output of 5–11, winning only four games. After beginning the season 2–0, the Cardinals suffered a tough schedule and lost their last eight matches to finish 4–12. This was the ninth consecutive season the Cardinals failed to qualify to the playoffs.

The Cardinals’ 196 points scored is the lowest total in franchise history for a 16-game season.

Offseason

NFL Draft

Personnel

Staff

Roster

Regular season

Schedule
The 1991 Cardinals suffered from a very tough schedule playing in a powerful NFC East that provided the first four Super Bowl winners of the 1990s, and seven of ten between 1986 and 1995. Football statistics site Football Outsiders calculated that the 1991 Cardinals played the second-toughest schedule based on strength of opponent of any NFL team between 1989 and 2013, although Pro Football Reference argues that the 1991 Cardinals suffered the ninth toughest non-strike schedule since 1971. The Cardinals played just two games against opponents with losing records – both amongst their first five games and both won – whilst ten opponents including all their last five finished 10–6 or better.

Standings

Notes

References

Arizona Cardinals seasons
Phoenix Cardinals
Phoenix


Narsipuram is a village located in Parvathipuram Manyam  district, Andhra Pradesh, 3 km from Parvathipuram. Located on the stretch of NH-43, it is accessible by all modes of transportation and has a railway station for most of the trains from Visakhapatnam to Rayagada.

Demographics

 census, had a population of 6,016. The total population constitute, 2,961 males and 3,055 females —a sex ratio of 1032 females per 1000 males. 560 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 270 are boys and 290 are girls —a ratio of 1074 per 1000. The average literacy rate stands at 70.89% with 3,377 literates, significantly higher than the state average of 67.41%.

References

Villages in Vizianagaram district


The discography of American country music artist Holly Dunn contains nine studio albums, one compilation album, 26 singles and 12 music videos. Originally a songwriter for MTM Records, she signed with the same label as a recording artist in 1985. Her debut single was 1985's "Praying for Keeps", which became a minor hit. In the same year she issued her self-titled debut album, her single "Daddy's Hands" became a major hit. The single peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. In 1987, her second album Cornerstone was issued. The record spawned three top ten country hits: "Love Someone Like Me", "Only When I Love" and "Strangers Again".

Her third studio album, Across the Rio Grande (1988), reached number 26 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Among its singles was "That's What Your Love Does to Me", which became a top ten hit. In 1989, Dunn switched to Warner Bros. Records where she issued The Blue Rose of Texas. The album spawned the number one hit "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me". In 1990, she released her fifth studio record entitled Heart Full of Love. It spawned her second number one single, "You Really Had Me Going".

In 1991, her first compilation album was released entitled Milestones: Greatest Hits, which peaked at number 25 on the Billboard country albums chart. The album spawned two minor hits, including "Maybe I Mean Yes". Her final album with Warner Bros. appeared in 1992, Getting It Dunn, which did not reach any Billboard chart positions. In 1995, she returned with her seventh studio release, Life and Love and All the Stages. Its lead single, "I Am Who I Am", was her final chart appearance, reaching number 56 on the country singles chart. Her final studio album issued was a gospel record entitled Full Circle (2003).

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Singles

As lead artist

As a featured artist

Videography

Video albums

Music videos

Notes

References

External links
 Holly Dunn discography at Discogs

Discographies of American artists
Country music discographies


This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Stanislaus County, California.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Stanislaus County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map.

There are 24 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark.

Current listings

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See also

List of National Historic Landmarks in California
National Register of Historic Places listings in California
California Historical Landmarks in Stanislaus County, California

References

Stanislaus


William Yalland (27 June 1889 – 23 October 1914) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Fishponds and killed in action when he was shot through the head while defending a trench at the First Battle of Ypres during World War I.

Yalland made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1910 County Championship, against Somerset. Batting in the lower order, Yalland scored a single run in the only innings in which he batted.

References

External links
William Yalland at Cricket Archive

1889 births
1914 deaths
British military personnel of World War I
Military personnel from Bristol
20th-century British military personnel
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
British military personnel killed in World War I


Sava Dumitrescu (born January 19, 1927 in Mihăești, Argeș - died September 7, 2019, Iași) was a Romanian pharmacologist and professor at the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iaşi, Romania.  He also served as rector of the university. He retired from teaching in 1993, but continued his research activities.

Sava Dumitrescu published the "Handbook of Pharmacology", in 2 volumes (1981 and 1985).  He is also President of the Romanian National Ethics Committee.

References

Medicina nu se poate trata de boala pensionarii Dead Link
Farmacologia romaneasca, de la clasic la modern

1927 births
Romanian pharmacologists
Romanian scientists
2019 deaths


Cristóbal Cruz Rivera, also known as Lacandón (born 19 May 1977) is a Mexican professional boxer and former IBO and IBF featherweight Champion.

Career
On 17 January 1992, Cruz began his professional career, beating fellow Mexican debutant Manuel Morales with a second round knockout in Monterrey.

After racking up 24 fights with 21 wins and 11 knockouts in just over tens years, Cruz faced Francisco Dianzo for the WBC Continental Americas featherweight title. Cruz overcame Dianzo in the eleventh round about would beat him again in 2005 with a 6th-round knockout.

Road to the IBF title
Between October 2005 and May 2007 Cruz's career looked to be coming to an end when he had seven fights with four losses and a no contest including two losses to Francisco Lorenzo.

In August 2007, Cruz started back on the comeback trail when he defeated Alberto Garza with a tenth-round knockout to capture the WBC FECOMBOX featherweight title. This victory lead to a shot at the IBO featherweight title against South African champion Thomas Mashaba who had only one loss in a ten-year 25 fight career. The clash took place in March 2008 at the Foxwoods Casino, Connecticut. The pair fought twelve tough rounds with Cruz having blood running from his nose from the eighth round onwards. In a major upset Cruz finished strongly breaking CompuBox record for punches thrown in a 12-round fight to take the victory by majority decision with one judge calling the fight even and two giving it to Cruz by one solitary round.

In October 2008, Cruz would vacate his newfound IBO title and aim for a bigger prize - the IBF featherweight title - which had been recently vacated by Robert Guerrero who moved up to super featherweight. He faced fellow Mexican Orlando Salido who had won an eliminator less than a year previous and had fought for the title previously, losing to Juan Manuel Márquez in 2004, his only loss since 2001 and a no contest again Guerrero in 2006. Once again Cruz overcame the odds to defeat the bookies favourite to take one of the most prestigious titles in boxing by beating a battered and swollen Salido on points.

He followed this up with a defeat of once-beaten Jorge Solís, avenging a loss earlier in his career.

Professional boxing record

See also
List of IBF world champions
List of Mexican boxing world champions

References

External links
 Biography and Pictures

Boxers from Chiapas
1977 births
Living people
International Boxing Federation champions
Featherweight boxers
Mexican male boxers
20th-century Mexican people
21st-century Mexican people


A stoma is a pore, found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that facilitates gas exchange.

Stoma may also refer to:

 Stoma (medicine), an opening which connects a portion of the body cavity to the outside environment
"Stoma", single by Welcome (band)
"Stoma", track on 2010 album The Age of Hell by Chimaira
"Stoma", track on 2015 soundtrack album Rosetta: Audio/Visual Original Score
Saulius Stoma, a Lithuanian politician
Sternberg Test of Mental Ability (STOMA), an intelligence test by Robert Sternberg

See also
Ad Stoma, a fort in the Roman province of Moesia

zh:保衛細胞


The Good Shepherd Convent is an English-medium high school in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

History
The school was established in 1925 in India, the roots of the convent grew as early as in 1835 in France when Sister Mary Euphrasia, sowed the seeds for the growth of the institution which has now become one of the premier group of educational institutions in Chennai and other parts of the country.

Notable alumni

 Vyjayantimala - Bollywood actress
 Sudha Shah - one of the first women cricketers in India
 Shriya Reddy - VJ and actress
 Sudha Ragunathan - vocalist
 Chitra Ramanathan - Contemporary Indian American Visual Artist
 Paloma Rao - VJ
Raadhika - Kollywood actress
Shweta Mohan-Playback Singer
Reshmi Menon - Kollywood  actress
Rati Agnihotri - Indian actress
Dipika Pallikal Karthik -  Indian Squash Player
Sakshi Agarwal-Kollywood actress and model

References

External Links
The Good Shepherd Convent Website

Schools in Chennai
Schools in Colonial India
1923 establishments in India


Svynaryn (; ) is a village in Volyn Oblast (province) Ukraine; before World War II, part of Wołyń Voivodeship, Poland. Other names: S'vinazhyn, Swinarzyn, Svinazhin.

World War II
Under German occupation in World War II, a heavily fortified Ukrainian command headquarters of the UPA-North resided in the Świnarzyn Forest. Between January and March 1944, the town was one of several sites of battle between the Volhynia 27th Infantry Division of the Polish Home Army consisting of almost 8,000 men and women under Kazimierz Bąbiński, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The 27th Division gave support to local self-defence against the UPA raids during the wave of massacres of Poles in Wołyń Voivodeship.

Nearby cities and towns include: west, Koloniya Verbichno Pervoye (2.7 nm); north: Verbichno (2.8 nm), Tulichev (3.1 nm), Cherniyuv (1.2 nm); east: Makovichi (2.1 nm), Serkizuv (2.1 nm); south: Chesnuvka (4.4 nm), Osekruv (2.1 nm). Altitude: 202 meters, or 666 feet.

See also
 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia

References

Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Villages in Kovel Raion


The Western Australian Centenary Air Race (also known as the East-West Air Race) was a  air race held in 1929 from Sydney to Perth to commemorate the centenary of Western Australia.

The £1000 handicap winner was Horrie Miller and the £300 fastest overall time prize was won by Briton Major Hereward de Havilland (22 hours 50 minutes 23 seconds), who flew the course solo, the only competitor to do so, in a modified de Havilland Gypsy Moth.

Determining results in the handicap event was found to be a difficult task, with type of machine, weather conditions, wind direction and strength of wind for each half day's hop, supplemented by times of starting being taken into consideration.

700 people had turned out at Kalgoorlie to see the competitors off on the final leg of the race.  Victorian C.D. Pratt and his co-pilot J.R. Guthrie were both seriously injured when their Gypsy Moth Corio crashed near Baandee,  east of Perth.  Weather conditions after leaving Tammin were said to be atrocious, with at least one forced landing and one crash.

The 17 teams left from Mascot in Sydney on 29 September 1929 and 14 finished at Maylands Aerodrome on Sunday 7 October.

Fastest times
 H. de Havilland (22 hours 50 minutes 23 seconds)
 Heath (23.24.51)
 Miller (23.31.58)
 Cunningham (26.56.52)
 Pentland (27.14.44)
 Eaton (28.17.30)
 McKay (29.23.10)
 Bardsley (29.37.58)
 Davies (29.32.54)
 Manifold (30.31.58)
 Farmer (31.35.7)
 Knapman (32.4.49)
 Lee Murray (32.30.0)
 Penny (32.56.20)

See also
Silver Centenary

References

Further reading
Adelaide Observer, 28 September 1929, page 20d, 12 October 1929, pages 33 (photographs)-61.

Air races
Aviation in Western Australia
Centenary of Western Australia
1929 in Australian sport
Sports competitions in Western Australia
1929 in aviation


Britta Persson is a Swedish indie pop musician from Uppsala, Sweden, who in September 2010 is releasing her third album entitled “Current Affair Medium Rare.”  She has gone from making modest and very simple recordings to working with complex arrangements but always with the same straight to the point lyrics and a feeling in the melodies as if they were just meant to be. Britta Persson had her breakthrough in her native Sweden in 2006 with the album “Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist”. The single Winter Tour got high rotation on radio in Scandinavia and a couple of years later also got great recognition in Europe thanks to a TV advertising campaign.
2008 the follow-up album “Kill Hollywood Me” was released. It clearly showed a tendency and followed the direction towards a bigger sound and a greater production. Since the start Britta Persson has worked with artists such as Kristofer Åström and Camera Obscura.

In 2012 Persson helped co-write the song So Young So High by Swedish Duo Dada Life.

Discography

Studio albums

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EPs
2004: Demo 1
2004: Demo 2
2005: Found At Home

References

External links
Official webpage

Swedish women singers
Swedish women songwriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Their Dogs Came With Them is a 2007 novel by Helena Maria Viramontes. Viramontes was born in East Los Angeles, California, into a Mexican American family. She attended Garfield High School and later Immaculate Heart College where she earned her BA in English Literature. During her time in school, Viramontes became deeply influenced by the Chicano Movement. Their Dogs Came With Them is Viramontes most recent work. Seventeen years in production, Their Dogs is acclaimed for its complex characters and personal, gritty writing style. The novel is largely based on Viramontes's childhood in East Los Angeles. The book focuses on the freeway construction and difficult conditions for the Mexican Americans living in this area at the time. It also explores the formation of Chicano youth gangs and their impact on Chicano communities.

Plot summary
Their Dogs Came With Them follows the lives of 4 Mexican American young women living in East Los Angeles during the 1960s.  Each character’s story is told in individual chapters while their lives often intermingle. Additionally, her narration style changes from past to present, giving the reader a glimpse into their childhoods to show how their upbringings has an effect on the present. They grow up in an urban landscape, intensified by freeway construction that displaced homes, while the Quarantine Authority uses roadblocks to keep residents in East Los Angeles, “supposedly” protecting them from rabid animals.

Turtle, a girl so desperate to belong, acts like a boy to please her gang member brother, Luis Lil Lizard, who is resentful about having a girl for a sibling.  After growing up in an abusive home environment, she too joins the McBride Homeboys and then lives on the streets when her brother goes to fight in Vietnam.  Ermila, orphaned after her parents ran away, lives with her grandparents who do not understand the rapidly changing times and the younger generation.  Her close group of school friends becomes her family, and together they experience the Chicano power movement as well as serious family and relationship problems.  Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, is optimistic about religion despite witnessing horrible atrocities, like the cruel and revengeful murder of Ermila’s cousin Nacho, committed by the McBride Boys.  And last there is Ana, who devotes herself to mentally ill brother, Ben.  As a child he loses his mother, and then he accidentally leads another boy in front of a truck, killing the boy.  Witnesses falsely claim that Ben tried to save the boy, and thus Ben leads a life of guilt.  Together, these characters, their environments, and their families, emotionally depict the struggles of being low-class section in Los Angeles during the 1960s.

Reception
Their Dogs Came With Them was published in 2007 and has been receiving growing popularity. Kate Soto writes that Viramontes looks to critique colonist abuses, exposing in particular the problems with highway construction.  The title and the story work to expose how the Quarantine Authority controlled Latinos in Los Angeles, using their ownership of dogs as an excuse.  Representing the power and abuse of government, the story illustrates how the people were mistreated and used.
Viramontes writes about a place and a cultural construct that no longer exists in East LA, but only in her memory, which allows her to write fiction as she pleases (Rokitka).

Social Connections
“I do remember a time when there weren’t any freeways, and then I do remember the neighborhood, whole city blocks abandoned, then chewed up, our neighbors disappeared.
It devastated, amputated East LA. from the rest of the city. The bulldozers resembled the conqueror’s ships coming to colonize a second time and I felt a real desire to portray the lives of those who disappeared.”
Helena Maria Viramontes in an interview with La Bloga.

As evident by the excerpt from Viramontes' interview, her writing is motivated by her love for the people she writes about. She wanted to tell the story of every Mexican American living in East Los Angeles during the political and social upheaval of the 1960s-1970s. The novel uses her own childhood experiences and events such as the Vietnam War, the Chicano Moratorium, poverty and Chicano gangs, and the construction of the freeways as a backdrop to an intricately woven story of four different female protagonists. The freeway construction is an important theme in the novel and to the social climate in East Los Angeles at that time. Having no political voice, Chicano communities could not stop the destruction of neighborhoods, displacement of homes, and the isolation of divided East L.A. which followed the freeway construction. Within the context of the novel, each of the four female protagonists directly experience this isolation and attempt to accommodate for it in their own ways such as joining gangs or returning to religion. Each must find a way to survive in the aftermath and wake of being forgotten in Los Angeles' progress. In addition to these issues, Viramontes also introduces a fictional entity called the Quarantine Authority. Composed of road blocks and police who enforce curfews that effectively "quarantine" the Chicano community from supposed rabid dogs. In effect, the Quarantine Authority become the conquerors of the Chicano neighborhood and the embodiment of the stifling isolation that the characters and communities at large felt from the experience.

References

2007 American novels
Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women
Fiction set in the 1960s
Novels set in Los Angeles
Novels by Helena Maria Viramontes
Atria Publishing Group books


Karla Jessen Williamson (born 1954 in Appamiut, Maniitsoq, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark) is an assistant professor of educational foundations at the University of Saskatchewan. Formerly, she was the executive director of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), the first woman and first Inuk to hold the position. Fluent in Danish, English, and Greenlandic, she is an educator and researcher on cross-culturalism, multiculturalism, antiracism, and Aboriginal epistemology.

Early life
Williamson, a Kalaaleq, was born in Greenland, and received her primary education there. She graduated from high school in Denmark.  She received her bachelor's degree and her master's degree in Education from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada in 1987, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen in Scotland with a focus on gender relations in post-colonial Greenland Inuit communities. She also completed her Greenland Teacher Training at the College of Nuuk, Greenland.

Career

Williamson's research includes Inuit childbearing and gender roles in post-colonial Greenland. She taught for sixteen years in the Indian and Northern Education program at the University of Saskatchewan before moving to the AINA on 15 September 2000.  She is also a Senior Researcher with the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

Because of her role with the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Arctic Human Health Initiative, Williamson became the Activity Leader for the IPY 2007–2008 project "Arctic Resiliency and Diversity: Community Response to Change" in collaboration with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. She is a notable presenter on masking and promotes it for Inuit understanding of gender equality in relationship to ancestors, animals, and the environment. In addition, Williamson has been an editor for the
Gabriel Dumont Institute's Journal of Indigenous Studies.

Williamson has served on the Advisory Committee for the Minister of Natural Resources, the Canadian Council on Learning, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Canadian Advisory Council, and the Canadian National Steering Committee for International Polar Year (IPY). She was also appointed to the Greenland Commission for Reconciliation in 2017.

Personal life
Williamson married Robert Gordon Williamson (1931–2012, Oxley, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England), an anthropologist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan. They have two children. She lives near Saskatoon and serves as assistant professor in the Department of Educational Foundations as the University of Saskatchewan. Williamson is the first Inuk to be tenured at a Canadian University.

Selected works
 1987, "Consequence of Schooling: Cultural Discontinuity amongst the Inuit". Canadian Journal of Native Education. 14 (2), 60–69. OCLC 93453172
 2000, "Celestial and Social Families of the Inuit." Expressions in Canadian Native Studies. Edited by Ron F. Laliberte, Priscilla Settee, James B. Waldram, Rob Innes, Brenda Macdougall, Lesley McBain, F. Laurie Barron. Aboriginal Program, Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan Extension Press, Saskatoon, Canada.
 1995, "Canadian Inuit Teacher Training and Inuit Identity". In Ilinniarfissuaq Ukiuni 150-ini. Edited by Daniel Thorleifsen. Atuakkiorfik. Nuuk, Greenland.
 2004, "Gender Issues".  In Arctic Human Development Report. Edited by Oran R. Young and Níels Einarsson. Oddi Printing Co. Reykjavik. Iceland.
 2010, "Inuit Ways of Knowing: Cosmocentrism and the Role of Teasing in Child Development". In Ethological Case Study: Social conflict and the acquisition and expression of conditioned defeat. Cambridge University Press. Co-authored with Laurence J. Kirmayer.
 2011, "Inherit my Heaven: Kalaallit Gender Relations". Inussuk, Nuuk.

References

External links
 Photo

1954 births
Living people
Greenlandic emigrants to Canada
Greenlandic women
Greenlandic Inuit people
University of Saskatchewan alumni
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan
Epistemologists
Inuit women
Cultural anthropologists
20th-century anthropologists
20th-century First Nations people
21st-century anthropologists
21st-century First Nations people
First Nations women


David Russell Batiste Jr. (December 12, 1965 – September 30, 2023) was an American drummer based in New Orleans. Batiste played drums for the bands the funky Meters, Papa Grows Funk, and Vida Blue.

Biography
David Russell Batiste Jr. was born in New Orleans on December 12, 1965. He was brought up in a musical family, Batiste started playing drums at the age of four. He also learned to play keyboards, saxophone, guitar and bass, and started to play in the family band when he was seven.

Batiste left college after two years to join Charmaine Neville's band. He joined the funky Meters, the reincarnation of the funk band The Meters, in 1989. The funky Meters without Art Neville played under the name Porter Batiste Stoltz (PBS) (with George Porter Jr. on bass, and Brian Stoltz on guitar).He also played drums with George Porter Jr. and the Runnin Pardners.

As a solo artist, he led his own band Russell Batiste Jr. and the Orkestra from 'Da Hood and has released two albums under the name.

Batiste also played regularly with organ player Joe Krown and guitarist Walter "Wolfman" Washington as the Krown Washington Batiste trio. This unit released a live CD Live at the Maple Leaf in 2008.

Batiste performed with a wide range of musicians and bands including Papa Grows Funk, Vida Blue, Harry Connick Jr., Champion Jack Dupree, Robbie Robertson and Maceo Parker. In 1987, Batiste was in the New Orleans funk band Nuclear Rhythms featuring percussionist songwriter Rosie Rosato, psychedelic funk guitarist songwriter Dirk Billie, bassist songwriter Mark Adam Miller and guitar and keyboard player David M. Brown.

Batiste died of heart attack at his home in LaPlace, Louisiana, on September 30, 2023, at the age of 57. His funeral was scheduled for October 10 at St. Katharine Drexel Church in New Orleans.

Discography

Solo works
 2000 Orkestra from 'Da Hood (Russell Batiste Jr.)
 2003 The Clinic (Russell Batiste Jr.)

With The funky Meters
 2003 Fiyo at the Fillmore, Vol. 1 (Fuel 2000)

With Vida Blue
 2002 Vida Blue (Elektra)
 2003 The Illustrated Band (Sanctuary)
 2019 Crossing Lines (ATO Records)

With Porter Batiste Stoltz
 2005 Expanding The Funkin' Universe (Ouw)
 2008 Moodoo (High Steppin' Productions)

With Krown Washington Batiste
 2008 Live at the Maple Leaf (Independent)
 2010 Triple Threat (Independent)
 2013 Soul Understanding (Independent)

References

External links
 The funky Meters official website
 Porter Batiste Stolz official website

1965 births
2023 deaths
20th-century African-American musicians
20th-century American drummers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century African-American musicians
21st-century American drummers
21st-century American male musicians
African-American drummers
American funk drummers
American male drummers
People from LaPlace, Louisiana
Rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans
African-American Catholics


Robert Whiteside (March 26, 1950 – October 30, 2006) was an American artist known for re-creations of Fabergé eggs for celebrities and dignitaries across the globe.  His talents extended well beyond that of an artist; many considered him a modern Renaissance man. He was a musician, painter, chef, pilot, and a restaurant owner on his  bed and breakfast, the Veranda. Whiteside's works have been granted as Gifts of State from the Reagan Administration, which also held a collection.

Early life
Robert Whiteside was born on March 26, 1950, in Tupelo, Mississippi, but was raised primarily in Texas.  He moved to Dallas with his family at age 10; by that time they had already lived in thirteen states. By age 13, Robert was passionate about being a musician. His primary instrument, clarinet, would become his major at North Texas State University; he also played cello, flute, oboe, and saxophone as a youth.

Career
After college, Whiteside pursued the study of musical-instrument repair. Whiteside first began metal work for musical instruments at the McCord Music Company in downtown Dallas, then quickly ventured on to goldsmithing. He was first introduced to Fabergé eggs in 1972; in the same year he opened his first studio in Dallas. He obtained machines made in mid-19th century Europe to create his eggs, which have been valued from $100 to $50,000. Whiteside also produced guilloché enamel, also made famous by Fabergé, which is an engraved pattern resembling moire silk that is seen through a translucent or clear enamel. Guilloché enamel was produced from the 18th century to about 1950 and is considered rare. Whiteside was also an instrument-rated private pilot and a member of the Rainbow Pilots Association. Another skill of Whiteside's was in the culinary arts. He attended the Culinary Institute of New York and had also trained with his friends such as Christian Svalesen, who are chefs in Dallas. Whiteside founded his own restaurant, which was located on the Veranda, and was a chef who could rival those of five-star restaurants.

Two of the most memorable moments for Whiteside were going to the White House to meet President Ronald Reagan and the First Lady, and meeting Audrey Hepburn. Whiteside met Hepburn when he was chosen during a UNICEF fundraiser to create a frame to house an autographed picture of Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Much of the work produced by Whiteside was presented to and owned by the Reagan administration; other individuals include Lady Bird Johnson and several dignitaries, including Queen Silvia of Sweden, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan and the wives of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac of France, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada, President José Napoleón Duarte of El Salvador and President José Sarney of Brazil. Another important event for Whiteside was a commercial for Lincoln Mercury. The original intent for the commercial was to have Malcolm Forbes lend the Fabergé Coronation egg; however, curator Margaret Kelly suggested that the car company contact Whiteside to use one of his eggs in order to avoid the expensive insurance and security that would have been necessary to obtain the Fabergé Coronation egg.

In 1992, Whiteside purchased the old Johnson farm house, which was located on the western outskirts of Mount Vernon, Texas, and moved it to a  estate located off FM 21, near Hopewell in south-central Franklin County in the Piney Woods of East Texas. In 1995, Whiteside moved his Dallas studio on Inwood Road and Lovers Lane to a shop he built on the Veranda property. He continued to work on his art projects there. He opened up the Veranda Bed, Breakfast and Restaurant in 1998.

Whiteside was an artist and humanitarian. He was a participant in community awareness support and services. One of his last activities for his community was setting up a foundation for the development, teaching and performance of music. He was the appointed director of the Mt. Vernon Music board. Whiteside, along with the founders of this venue, had the goal of raising money for the purpose of supporting and stimulating awareness in the community for the need of music. Whiteside also participated in various teaching positions from table etiquette for the competitors in the Miss Mount Vernon Scholarship Pageant to metallurgy for a group of welders.

Whiteside was known for donating his abilities. In 1987, Whiteside, along with Gump's, created Faberge-inspired table settings for the Crystal Charity Ball. The table setting theme created for six consisted of gilded sterling silver and royal blue guilloché enamel. The items created for this event were six place card holders enhanced by a small vermeil bow and two cultured pearl feet, six pair of salt and pepper shakers accented by four cultured pearl feet, six cylindrical columned candlesticks, six napkin rings accented at each edge by a vermeil border, and a Fabergé-inspired presentation egg mounted on a Brazilian rock crystal base. The Fabergé egg was hinged with clock movement contained within the lid for display when the egg was opened. Whiteside also contributed to the Fighting AIDS fundraiser by designing a jacket for Design Industries Foundation that had sold for a large amount. Another display Whiteside created was at the invitation of Anita Madden of Louisville, Kentucky. Whiteside's work was representative of the Kentucky Derby Eve Party. He described the theme of his work as "horsy".

Death

On Wednesday, November 1, 2006, Robert Whiteside, aged 56, was found by his partner, Warren Butler, murdered at the Veranda. It was apparent that the murder occurred during a robbery the night of October 30. The shooter, Mark Aaron Rains, a 21-year-old local once employed by Whiteside to help in his kitchen, was quickly found and arrested in Dallas based on evidence of his repeated use of Whiteside's credit card at a local gas station. Rains, who admitted three times to the crime, was convicted. He escaped once from jail. In exchange for the release of friends who aided in his escape and in order to avoid the death sentence, Rains pleaded guilty on July 1, 2008, at the Franklin County Courthouse. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The second assailant, Jose Chavez, was arrested days later and pleaded guilty in February 2009. A third suspect, Elbis Torres, 28, also known as "Cuz," was arrested in Cockrell Hill, Texas, on October 28, 2008. He entered a guilty plea on March 24, 2009. Instead of a funeral, Butler and Whiteside's brother Harry decided on a simple service at the pond located on the Veranda property. Butler has lived at the Veranda since Whiteside's death. The business closed at the end of 2009.

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1950 births
2006 deaths
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Luigi Frati (born 10 April 1943) is an Italian academic physician and rector of the Sapienza University of Rome.

Frati was born in Siena in 1943 and studied in Milan where he obtained a B.A. in medicine from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He became known for his research activity in studies relating to the analysis of a protein that facilitates the proliferation of cells in the epidermis. Later he became a full professor at Sapienza and was made chair of general pathology in its faculty of medicine. He was a member of the Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (‘National University Council’) from 1980 to 1998, and was dean of his faculty for the 16–18 years leading up to 2008. On 3 October 2008 he was elected rector of the university.

Nepotism allegations
Frati has come under fire for nepotism because of three members of his family holding chairs in the same university . According to a BBC report: "Professor Frati has [...] overseen the promotion of his wife from being a local high school history teacher, to becoming Professor of Medical History. His daughter also gained a post as Professor of Legal Medicine - without any specific medical education. And his son was made an associate professor in cardiology aged just 31, one of the youngest Italians to gain such an appointment."

References

Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Italian pathologists
Living people
1943 births


Liu Zhihua (; born 1949) is a former vice-mayor of Beijing. He was dismissed in 2006, and received a suspended death sentence for taking bribes of over six million yuan (valued at the time at over US$1 million) in October 2008.

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Living people
1949 births
Deputy mayors of Beijing
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption
Date of birth missing (living people)


The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The family includes Andrew Mellon, one of the longest-serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries, along with prominent members in the judicial, banking, financial, business, and political professions, as well as famous banker R.B. Mellon, and his son R.K. Mellon, visionary who provided funding and leadership for the first Pittsburgh Renaissance.

History

The American branch of the Mellon family traces its origins to County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. In 1816, Archibald Mellon emigrated from Northern Ireland to the United States and set up residence in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  Two years later, Archibald was joined by his son, Andrew, and his family.

The family's wealth originated with Mellon Bank, founded in 1869 by Archibald's grandson, Thomas Mellon. Under the direction of Thomas's son, Andrew William Mellon, the Mellons became principal investors and majority owners of Gulf Oil (which merged with Chevron Corporation in 1985), Alcoa (since 1886), The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (since 1970), Koppers (since 1912), New York Shipbuilding (1899–1968) and Carborundum Corporation, as well as their major financial and ownership influence on Westinghouse Electric, H.J. Heinz Company,  Newsweek, U.S. Steel, Credit Suisse First Boston and General Motors. The family bank would go on to merge with the Bank of New York to become BNY Mellon

The family also founded the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., donating both art works and funds, and is a patron to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, and with art the University of Virginia. Carnegie Mellon University, and its Mellon College of Science, is named in honor of the family, as well as for its founder, Andrew Carnegie, who was a close associate of the Mellons.
The family's founding patriarch was Judge Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), the son of Andrew Mellon and Rebecca Wauchob, who were Scotch-Irish farmers from Camp Hill Cottage, in Lower Castletown, County Tyrone, Ireland, and emigrated to what is now the Pittsburgh suburb of north-central Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  The family can be divided into four branches: the descendants of Thomas Alexander Mellon Jr, of James Ross Mellon, of Andrew William Mellon, and of Richard Beatty Mellon. The Mellon family are members of the Episcopal Church.

Prominent members

 Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), judge and founder of the Mellon Bank; married Sarah Jane Negley of Pittsburgh. As a boy he decided to abandon his parents' farming lifestyle for law and banking in the city after reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
 Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937), banker, one of the longest-serving U.S. Treasury secretaries in history; namesake of the Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, both in Washington, D.C.
 Richard Beatty Mellon (1858–1933), banker, industrialist and philanthropist; married Jennie Taylor King
 William Larimer Mellon, Sr. (1868–1949), a founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation
 Richard King Mellon (1899–1970), financier, general, and philanthropist; married Constance Prosser McCaulley
 Sarah Mellon (1903–1965), heiress of investments in Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil and Alcoa; her husband was Alan Magee Scaife
 William Larimer Mellon, Jr. (1910–1989), founder of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
 Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), famous recluse and funder of multiple anti-immigration organizations
 Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014), the chief sponsor of The Heritage Foundation and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review since 1970; first marriage was to Frances L. Gilmore (born December 2, 1934), second marriage was to Margaret "Ritchie" Battle (1947–2005)
 Timothy Mellon (b. 1942),chairman and majority owner of Pan Am Systems, a transportation holding company that was based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was subsequently sold to CSX Transportation.
 James Ross ("Jay") Mellon II (b. 1942), author of books about Abraham Lincoln, slavery in America, and his family's founding patriarch, Thomas Mellon; he travels permanently in order to legally minimize taxes
 Christopher Mellon (b. 1958), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations; former minority staff director of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, adjunct professor at Georgetown University; private equity investor; and former National Security Affairs Advisor at To the Stars Academy
 Matthew Taylor Mellon II (1964–2018), a chairman of the Republican Party Finance of New York and served as a regent director of finance for the Republican National Committee; founded or participated in multiple start-ups such as Jimmy Choo, Harrys of London, Hanley Mellon, Marquis Jets, Arrival Aviation and Challenge Capital Partners
 Mike Monroney (1902–1980), United States Senator from Oklahoma who wrote and sponsored legislation such as the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 and the Automobile Information Disclosure Act of 1958, the latter of which made him the namesake of the Monroney sticker; married to Mary Ellen Mellon of the Mellon family

Members

Thomas Mellon (1813–1908) ∞ 1843: Sarah Jane Negley (1817–1909)
Thomas Alexander Mellon, Jr., (1844–1899) ∞ Mary C. Caldwell (1847–1902), the sister of Alexander Caldwell
Thomas Alexander Mellon, III (1873–1948) ∞ Helen McLanahan Wightman (1871–1961)
Edward Purcell Mellon, II ∞ Louise Grubbs
Thomas Alexander Mellon, IV
Helen S. Mellon (1914–2007) ∞ 1936: Adolph William Schmidt (1904–2000)
Helen Schmidt ∞ unk. Claire
Thomas Mellon Schmidt (b. 1940)
Edward Purcell Mellon (1875–1953) ∞ Ethel Churchill Humphrey (1880–1938)
Jane Caldwell Mellon (1917–2013) ∞ (1) Craigh Leonard ∞ (2) Robinson Simonds (1906–2000)
Edward M. Leonard
Craigh Leonard, Jr.
Stephanie Leonard
Mary Caldwell Mellon (1884–1975) ∞ (1) John Herman Kampmann (1880–1957) ∞ (2) Samuel Alfred McClung (1880–1945)
John Herman Kampmann, Jr. (1907–1940)
Mary Mellon Kampmann (1908–1995) ∞ Lawrence Deen Schwartz (1909–1957)
Samuel Alfred McClung, III (1918–2015) ∞ Adelaide "Adie" Smith (1919–2000)
Isabel Edith McClung (1920–1967) ∞ Charles Laban Abernethy, Jr. (1913–1990), the son of Charles Laban Abernethy
Cynthia Mellon McClung (1921–1991) ∞ Stephen Stone, Jr. (1915–1962)
James Ross Mellon (1846–1934) ∞ Rachel Hughey Larimer (1847–1919), the daughter of William Larimer
William Larimer Mellon (1868–1949) ∞ Mary Hill Taylor
Matthew Taylor Mellon (1897–1992) ∞ (1) 1931: (div.) Gertrud Altegoer (1909–2005) ∞ (2) Jane Bartrum
Karl Negley Mellon (1938–1983) ∞ Anne Stokes Bright
Christopher Mellon (b. 1958)
Hunter Mellon (b. 2001)
Aiden Mellon (b. 2004)
Matthew Taylor Mellon, II (1964–2018) ∞ (1) 2000: (div. 2005) Tamara Yeardye (b. 1967) ∞ (2) Nicole Hanley
Araminta Mellon (b. 2002)
Force Mellon (b. 2011)
Olympia Mellon (b. 2013)
James Ross Mellon, II (b. 1942) ∞ Vivian Ruesch, the daughter of Hans Ruesch
Rachel Larimer Mellon (1899–2006) ∞ John Fawcett Walton, Jr. (1893–1974)
Farley Walton ∞ Joshua Clyde Whetzel, Jr. (1921–2012)
Joshua Clyde Whetzel, III ∞ Marion Plunkett
Rachel Walton Whetzel ∞ Richard Casselman
Thomas Porter Whetzel
William Mellon Whetzel ∞ (1) 1978: (div.) Patricia Joan McGarey ∞ (2) Camilla F.
Mary Walton ∞ Walter J. P. Curley, Jr.
John Fawcett Walton, III ∞ Phyllis Walton
James Mellon Walton (1930–2022) ∞ Ellen Carroll
James Mellon Walton, Jr. ∞ Elizabeth Andrews Orr
Margaret Lederle Mellon (1901–1998) ∞ (1) 1924: Alexander Laughlin (d. 1926) ∞ (2) 1928: Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. (1900–1944)
Alexander Mellon Laughlin (b. 1925)
Louise Eustis Hitchcock
Margaret Mellon Hitchcock
Thomas Hitchcock, III
William Mellon Hitchcock
William Larimer Mellon, Jr. (1910–1989) ∞ (1) 1930: (div. 1938) Grace Rowley ∞ (2) 1946: Gwen Grant Mellon (née Rawson; 1911–2000), former wife of John de Groot Rawson
William Larimer Mellon, III (1933–1963) ∞ Katherine LeGrand Council
Sarah Lucille Mellon (1887–1968) ∞ (1) Alexander Grange ∞ (2) George S. Hasbrouck ∞ (3) Sidney J. Holloway
Sarah Emma Mellon, who died in childhood
Annie Rebecca Mellon, who died in childhood
Samuel Selwyn Mellon, who died 1862, at age 9
Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937) ∞ 1900: (div. 1912) Nora Mary McMullen (1879–1973)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901–1969) ∞ 1926: (div. 1945) David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
Audrey Mellon Bruce (1934–1967) ∞ 1955: Stephen Currier (d. 1967), son of Mary Warburg
Andrea Bruce Currier (b. 1956) ∞ 1980: Donald Wright Patterson, Jr. (1939)
Justin Bruce Patterson ∞ 2013: Anna Elizabeth Burke
Lavinia Currier ∞ Joel McCleary
Michael Stephen Currier (1961–1998) ∞ Karin Griscom
Paul Mellon (1907–1999) ∞ (1) 1935: Mary Conover Brown (1904–1946) ∞ (2) 1948: Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910–2014), former wife of Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr
Timothy Mellon (b. 1943)
Catherine Conover Mellon ∞ 1957: (div. 1973) John W. Warner III (1927-2021)
Virginia Warner
John William Warner, IV (b. 1962) ∞ Shannon Ford Hamm (b. 1965)
Mary Warner
Richard Beatty Mellon (1858–1933) ∞ Jennie King (d. 1938)
Richard King Mellon (1899–1970) ∞ 1936: Constance Mary ( Prosser) McCaulley (later Burrell; 1910-1980)
Richard Prosser Mellon (1939–2020) ∞ (1) Gertrude Adams (1939–2003) (2) Kathryn Dybdal
Richard Adams Mellon ∞ Alex Mellon
Armour Negley Mellon ∞ Sophie Mellon
Cassandra King Mellon (b. 1940) ∞ (1) George M. Henderson ∞ (2) 1979: Edwin Van Rensselaer Milbury
Christina Mellon Henderson ∞ 1996: Scott Robert McBroom
Bruce King Mellon Henderson
Constance Barber Mellon (1941–1983) ∞ William Russell Grace Byers (d. 1999) (brother in law of Joseph Verner Reed Jr.) ∞ (2) 1971: (div. 1973) J. Carter Brown (1934–2002)
William Russell Grace Byers, Jr. (b. 1965)
Alison Mellon Byers (b. 1967)
Seward Prosser Mellon (b. 1942)
Sarah Cordelia Mellon (1903–1965) ∞ Alan Magee Scaife (1900–1958)
Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005) ∞ (1) 1949: (div. 1950) (1) Herbert A. May, Jr. ∞ (2) 1973: Robert Duggan (1926/7–1974)
Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014) ∞ (1) 1956: (div. 1991) Frances L. Gilmore (b. 1934) ∞ (2) 1991: (div. 2012) Margaret "Ritchie" Battle (b. 1947)
Jennie K. Scaife (1963–2018)
Mary M. Ferri (b.1915)
David N. Scaife (b. 1966)
George Negley Mellon (1860–1887)

Network

Associates

Edward Goodrich Acheson
Diamond Jim Brady
Alexander Caldwell
Arthur Vining Davis
William Donner
Joseph Duveen
David E. Finley Jr.
Henry Clay Frick
James M. Guffey
Joseph R. Grundy
Henry John Heinz II
Philander C. Knox
Henry W. Oliver
David A. Reed
Adolph W. Schmidt
Arthur Sixsmith
John W. Warner III
Cyrus Woods

Businesses

Alcoa
Carborundum Corporation
Crane Holdings
Crucible Steel Company
General Reinsurance Corporation
Gulf Oil
H.J. Heinz Company
H.K. Porter, Inc.
Idlewild Park
Koppers
Ligonier Valley Railroad
McClintic-Marshall Construction Company
MellonDrexel
Mellon National Bank
Monongahela River Coal Company
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Old Overholt
Pan Am Systems
Perma Treat
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Pittsburgh,Westmoreland & Somerset Railroad
Rokeby Stables
Sacramento Union
Spring Valley Mining & Irrigation Company
Standard Steel Car Company
Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Philanthropy & miscellaneous nonprofits

Allegheny Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve
Bollingen Foundation
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Carnegie-Mellon University
Colcom Foundation
Carthage Foundation
Ezra Stiles College
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
KQV
Laurel Foundation
Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area
Mellon Trust
Morse College
National Gallery of Art
National Legal and Policy Center
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Rachel Mellon Walton Fund
Richard King Mellon Foundation
Sky Meadows State Park
University of Pittsburgh
White House Rose Garden

Buildings, estates & historic sites

Andrew Mellon Building
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
Cathedral of Learning
Dune House
East Liberty Market
East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Mellon Carriage House
Mellon National Bank Building
Mellon Park
Mellon Square
National Portrait Gallery
Oak Spring Garden
Penguin Court
Rolling Rock Club
Scallop Path

References

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Business families of the United States
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Political families of the United States


Joseph Burstyn (born Jossel Lejba Bursztyn;  December 15, 1899 – November 29, 1953) was a Polish-American film distributor who specialized in the commercial release of foreign-language and American independent film productions.

Life and career
Burstyn was born  as Jossel Bursztyn to a Jewish family in Sokoły, Poland in 1899. On May 7, 1921, he arrived in the U.S. with his family, parents Pinches Herszko (a merchant; born 1871 to Chaim Wolf and Chaja z Wolfów-Pinchesów Bursztyn) and Gittel "Gitla" Rotbart, and siblings Chaim Kielman, Cypa, Berko, Joel Szloma and Bejla. The family settled in Cleveland, where an aunt lived. His legal name was Joseph Burstein but he later spelled it Burstyn. He became a US citizen in 1934. He initially worked as a public relations representative for the Yiddish theater circuit in New York City before becoming active in film distribution with business partner Arthur Mayer from the late 1930s to the late 1940s.

His most famous releases include The Forgotten Village (1941) written by John Steinbeck, the Roberto Rossellini classics Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisà (1946), The Quiet One (1948), the Academy Award-nominated Little Fugitive (1953), and Fear and Desire (1953), the first feature film directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Joseph Burstyn Inc. vs. Wilson
From 1951-53, Burstyn was at the center of Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952), which resulted in a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which helped end   film censorship in New York.

The court decision determined that certain provisions of the New York State Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious", was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a violation of the First Amendment; in this case, the film in question was "The Miracle", directed by Roberto Rossellini, an Italian short film that was part of the anthology film Ways of Love (1950).

Death
Burstyn died in November 1953 of a coronary thrombosis during a TWA flight from New York to Rome. He collapsed several hours after the plane took off from Gander, Newfoundland. He was dead when the plane landed at Shannon Airport in Ireland.

Films distributed by Burstyn
Films distributed by Mayer and Burstyn (1933–48)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
The Quiet One (1948)
Lo Tafhidenu/The Illegals (1948) documentary in Hebrew directed by Meyer Levin
Paris 1900 (1947)
Shakuntala (1947)
Paisan (1946)
The Battle of the Rails (1946)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Marie-Louise (1944)
Portrait of a Woman (1944)
Hymn of the Nations (1944)
The Forgotten Village (1941)
Lights Out in Europe (1940)
Louise (1939)
Crisis (1939)
Katia (1938)
Ballerina (1937) English title of Le morte du cygne
La guerre des gosses (1937) French version of War of the Buttons directed by Jacques Daroy
Pépé le Moko (1937)
The Lower Depths (1936)
 Women's Club (1936)
Die ewige Maske (1935)
Whirlpool of Desire (1935), French film Remous directed by Edmond T. Gréville
Song of the Streets (1933)

Films distributed by Joseph Burstyn Inc. (1950-55)

Stella (1955)
Romantic Youth (1954)
Tanga-Tika (1953)
Little Fugitive (1953)
Fear and Desire (1953)
Umberto D. (1952)
Savage Triangle (1951)  English version of Le garcon sauvage
Miracle in Milan (1951)
Ways of Love (1950)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
Side Street Story (1950)
Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950)
Justice Is Done (1950)
The Berliner (1948)
A Day in the Country (1936) 1950 US release
Jofroi (1934) 1950 US re-release
À Nous la Liberté (1931) 1954 US re-release

References

Wittern-Keller, Laura and Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court.University Press of Kansas, 2008.

External links

List of films distributed by Burstyn and Arthur Mayer at IMDB
List of films distributed by Joseph Burstyn Inc. at IMDB

1899 births
1953 deaths
American activists
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Polish emigrants to the United States
Place of birth missing
Film distributors (people)
Deaths from coronary thrombosis


"White X'mas" is the eighth single by Japanese boy band, KAT-TUN, and their second from their fourth studio album, Break the Records: By You & For You. It was released in Japan on December 3, 2008, and became KAT-TUN's eleventh consecutive number one record and eighth number one single on the Oricon charts, respectively.

Single information
The single was released in a limited capacity for the Christmas season from its release date to December 26, 2008 in two pressings. The first press edition came with a DVD featuring a short film about the making of the single's music video, the music video itself and a twenty-page photo booklet while the regular limited edition included the single's instrumental track. Both pressings featured alternate jacket artwork. The single was also made available for download via Chaku-Uta via Japanese DWANGO websites from November 19, 2008, to December 2, 2008. DWANGO also began airing a preview of the track's music video on November 19.

The single was KAT-TUN's first holiday-themed song to be released commercially, their second ballad to be released as a single since "Bokura no Machi de" in 2006 and their second consecutive single with no tie-ins to endorsements or television dramas. It is also the first KAT-TUN record to be released in South Korea, when it became available in stores on December 17, 2008. White X'mas is certified Platinum by RIAJ for shipment of 250,000 copies. In 2010, CDTV announced "Your Most Beloved Winter Songs of 2000s" ranking and White X'Mas topped the ranking.

Promotion
KAT-TUN performed the song live on television for the first time on Music Station on November 21, 2008, and returned the week after on November 28 for an encore performance. M-ste also invited the group for the third consecutive week on December 5, 2008. The group also performed their song on Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ (on December 1), their own variety show Cartoon KAT-TUN (December 3) and Utaban (December 4). Yuichi Nakamaru paid a visit to Shounen Club on December 14 and performed the song live with NEWS' Keiichiro Koyama and Kanjani∞'s Ryuhei Maruyama as part of a special medley which included "Don't U Ever Stop" and "Lips". The group were invited to perform on NTV's "Best Artist 2009" year-end special on December 16. Other subsequent performances of the song were on the group's own variety show, Cartoon KAT-TUN, on December 24 and Music Station year-end special, Super Live, on December 26 where they sang the song as part of a medley including "Don't U Ever Stop". The last performance of the song in 2008 took place at Shounen Club Premium on December 28.

Chart performance and sales

Sales and certifications

Track listing
 Limited edition track listing

DVD track listing
"White X'mas" (music video)
"White X'mas" (making of)

References

KAT-TUN songs
2008 singles
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles
2008 songs


Normandy High School is a public high school located in Wellston, St. Louis County, Missouri that is part of the Normandy Schools Collaborative.

History
Normandy started a high school at Lincoln Elementary School in Pagedale early its history but it did not last beyond a year. In 1907 a high school was started in the former Washington Elementary School on St. Charles Rock Road, but only one class graduated when the school closed in 1911. In 1923, the district again opened a school, this time on property purchased from the Eden Theological Seminary. For its first year, the high school shared the ornate four-story main building with Eden students. Plans by William B. Ittner for a California-style collegiate campus with a central quadrangle were implemented shortly after. The school opened as a combined junior high school and senior high school, with six levels from 7th through 12th grades. Plans also called for adding the first two years of college. This plan was realized in a way forty years later with the opening of the Normandy Residence Center, which became the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A vocational building and gymnasium, also designed by Ittner, were added in 1929. The vocational building remains as West Hall. The gymnasium, with curved, amphitheater-style seating, was renowned in the area for its architecture.

The founders of the high school had the goal of creating the "ideal high school". The founders embraced an educational concept called "functional education," which meant educating young people to assume their place in the democracy as intelligent, educated, civically involved, ethical people. The curriculum was based on life skills; for example, gaining a lifetime liking for reading, a lifetime passion for learning. Classroom teaching was largely modeled on John Dewey's beliefs in learning by doing and relating the school to the community outside the school and, furthermore, making the school the center of the community. Lectures and tests based on student feeding the lectures back to the teacher were bypassed for hands-on projects, panel discussions, research projects and experiences outside the school. Normandy High was a so-called "lighthouse" school, with its programs the subject of numerous articles in The School Review and other educators' publications and of panels at high-profile places such as the University of Chicago.

Several changes to the original layout of the school were made during the 1940s and 1950s. The Garage, erected in the 1940s with a bus garage below and classrooms above, remains as North Hall. The school opened one of the first St. Louis County high school pools in 1948. Due to large enrollment, a separate junior high school was planned and built in 1949; however, a fire damaged the original junior high school building that year, and while construction was ongoing on the new building, classes were held in two sessions a day. Prior to the 1950s, the campus also included a large lake and forest area, and the school retained faculty residences inherited from Eden in which the Normandy School District superintendent and some teachers lived. The original seminary building was replaced by Central Hall in 1959; the large, Ittner-designed gymnasium was demolished and replaced by the circular Viking Hall.

Community
The school serves 24 separate municipalities in St. Louis County including unincorporated areas. The district encompasses an economically depressed region of St. Louis County including industrial areas such as iron works and scrapyards. The municipalities served are:

 Bellerive
 Bel-Nor
 Bel-Ridge
 Beverly Hills
 Charlack
 Cool Valley
 Glen Echo Park
 Greendale
 Hanley Hills
 Hillsdale
 Normandy
 Northwoods
 Norwood Court
 Pagedale
 Pasadena Hills
 Pasadena Park
 Pine Lawn
 St. John
 Uplands Park
 Velda City
 Velda Village
 Vinita Park
 Vinita Terrace
 Wellston

Activities
For the 2013–2014 school year, the school offered 17 activities approved by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA): baseball, boys and girls basketball, sideline cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, dance team, 11-man football, music activities, girls soccer, softball, speech and debate, girls swimming and diving, boys and girls track and field, girls volleyball, and wrestling. In addition to its current activities, Normandy students have won several state championships, including:
Baseball: 1953
Boys basketball: 1951
Boys golf: 1936, 1949, 1950, 1957
Boys soccer: 1974
Boys swimming and diving: 1952, 1954
Boys track and field: 1974
Girls track and field: 1986
Wrestling: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940

Notable alumni

Michael Brown, shot by police in 2014, led to Ferguson unrest
Laurence Maroney, National Football League player
Tony Pearson, Mr. World and AAU Mr. Universe body building contestant
Steve Pecher, professional soccer player
DJ TAB, DJ, music producer
Robert A. Young, U.S. Representative Missouri

References

William B. Ittner buildings
Educational institutions established in 1923
High schools in St. Louis County, Missouri
Public high schools in Missouri
1923 establishments in Missouri
Buildings and structures in St. Louis County, Missouri


Magelhaens is the name used by the International Astronomical Union for features commemorating the explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

It can refer to:
 Magelhaens (lunar crater), a feature on the Moon
 Magelhaens A, an associated feature on the Moon
 Magelhaens (Martian crater), a feature on Mars


William Larimer Mellon may refer to:

William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868–1949), American businessman and founder of Gulf Oil
William Larimer Mellon Jr. (1910–1989), American philanthropist and physician


There is a population of Pakistanis in France, primarily of Punjabi origin from Punjab and Azad Kashmir. Large-scale Pakistani migration to France began in the 1970s; they clustered around the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, where many set up grocery stores and restaurants.

According to the latest figures published by the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis, there were an estimated 104,000 Pakistanis living in France as of the year 2017.

According to the latest official statistics published by the French government, there were 24,305 Pakistani-born people living in the country in the year 2015, also there were 19,646 Pakistani nationals living in France in 2015.

Air France previously served Karachi airport until the mid 1990's and there is now demand for a return, especially given the comparable cities in North Africa more continuously served by this premium carrier.

Most Pakistanis in France are concentrated in the major cities such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, and Toulouse. They have settled in France for various reasons, including education, work opportunities, family reunification, and political asylum.

Education is a significant reason for Pakistani immigration to France. Many Pakistani students come to France to pursue higher education in fields like engineering, computer science, medicine, and business. They often enroll in prestigious French universities and institutions like the École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and HEC Paris.

Notable people
Mehmood Bhatti, fashion designer and entrepreneur, settled in Paris in 1977
Namira Salim, Pakistani-born astronaut now based in Paris and Dubai
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born son of Ismaili imam Aga Khan III
James Caan, British Pakistani entrepreneur who lives in France during part of the year

See also
 France–Pakistan relations
 Pakistani diaspora
 Immigration to France

References

Further reading

Pakistani diaspora in France

Immigration to France by country of origin
Islam in France
Muslim communities in Europe