Rafael Lopez Guzman is a Spanish catedratico and has a Phd in art history. He is an expert in mudejar art in Spain and Latin America. He is a professor in the Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Books
He has published several books and articles on mudejar art and colonial art in Spain and Mexico.
"Tradición y Clasicismo en la Granada del siglo XVI: Arquitectura Civil y Urbanismo" . (Granada, Diputación,1987)
"Arquitectura Mudéjar Granadina". (Granada, Caja de Ahorros,1990.)
"Arquitectura y Carpintería Mudéjar en Nueva España." (México, Azabache, 1992)
"Arquitectura Mudéjar: Del sincretismo medieval a las alternativas americanas" (Madrid, Cátedra, 2000).
"Los Palacios del Renacimiento" (Granada, Diputación, 2005)
"Territorio, poblamiento y arquitectura. México en las relaciones geográficas de Felipe II" (Granada, Universidad, 2007)

He has made several introductions to books of art such as Arquitectura imaginaria Al-Azrak: el Palacio Azul by León R. Zahar, Editorial Artes de México, 1999 (introductory note by Prof. Oleg Grabar). He also made a presentation for the book, Taracea islamica y mudejar, Editorial Artes de Mexico, 2000 by the same author and for the book Arte islamico, evocacion del Paraiso, El Colegio de Mexico, 2008 by the same author.

References

External links
Elcolegiodeméxico.com
artesdemexico.com

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spanish art historians
Academic staff of the University of Granada


The Lötschenlücke (el. 3153 m.) is a high mountain pass of the Bernese Alps, connecting the Lötschental to the valley of the Aletsch Glacier in the canton of Valais. Both sides of the pass are covered by glaciers: the Langgletscher on the west and the Grosser Aletschfirn on the east. The Lötschenlücke lies between the Mittaghorn on the north and the Sattelhorn on the south.

The closest settlement is Fafleralp (east of Blatten) in the Lötschental. There are no settlements in the valley of the Aletsch Glacier. Above the pass, at 3,240 m, lies the Hollandia Hut of the Swiss Alpine Club.

See also
List of mountain passes in Switzerland

References

External links
Lötschenlücke on Hikr

Mountain passes of Valais
Mountain passes of the Alps


Capel railway station was a station in Capel St Mary, Suffolk, on a short branch line from Bentley Junction to Hadleigh. The station buildings were remarkably ornate for a village with a population of 649 in 1851 and 504 in 1931. There were goods sidings on the northern side of the station, which were used extensively in World War II handling supplies to a nearby United States Army Air Forces base, later known as RAF Raydon.

The line opened in 1847 and closed to passenger traffic in 1932 and for freight services in 1964 a year before closure of the line. As the railway line through the station crossed the A12 road at a level-crossing, when the road was widened in the early 1970s the station was demolished. Capel Station Garage and car repairs workshop now occupies part of the site.

References

External links
 Capel station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
 The Story of Hadleigh's railway

Disused railway stations in Suffolk
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1932
1847 establishments in England
Babergh District


The Nuthe is a river in Brandenburg, Germany, left tributary of the Havel. Its total length is . The Nuthe originates in the Fläming region, near Niedergörsdorf. It flows north through Jüterbog, Luckenwalde, Trebbin and Saarmund. The Nuthe joins the Havel in central Potsdam.

It has been said that crossing the Nuthe three times in a row is good luck.

Rivers of Brandenburg

Rivers of Germany


The 2008–09 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University in the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Dino Gaudio.  The team played its home games in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

On January 19, the Deacons took the top spot in both the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll and the Associated Press poll, making it the second time in program history a Wake Forest team was number one in the country.

Wake Forest finished the regular season with a record of 24–5, and 11–5 in the ACC, which tied them with Duke. The Demon Deacons received the number two seed in the 2009 ACC men's basketball tournament in a tiebreaker over Duke because of their victory against number one seed North Carolina.

Preseason
In the preseason ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll the Demon Deacons were ranked #24.

Roster

Schedule

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Rankings

Leading scorer by game

See also
 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings

References

Wake Forest
Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball seasons
Wake Forest


The Human Brain Project (HBP) was a large ten-year scientific research project, based on exascale supercomputers, that aimed to build a collaborative ICT-based scientific research infrastructure to allow researchers across Europe to advance knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, computing, and brain-related medicine.

The Project, which started on 1 October 2013, was a European Commission  Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship. The HBP was coordinated by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and was largely funded by the European Union. The project coordination office was in Geneva, Switzerland.

Peer-reviewed research finds that the public discussion forum (the Human Brain Project forum) was actively utilized and showed resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The HBP forum has been most actively utilized and useful for solving questions related to programming issues and questions close to HBP core areas.

Strategic goals and organisation

Fundamental to the HBP approach is to investigate the brain on different spatial and temporal scales (i.e. from the molecular to the large networks underlying higher cognitive processes, and from milliseconds to years). To achieve this goal, the HBP relies on the collaboration of scientists from diverse disciplines, including neuroscience, philosophy and computer science, to take advantage of the loop of experimental data, modelling theories and simulations. The idea is that empirical results are used to develop theories, which then foster modelling and simulations which result in predictions that are in turn verified by empirical results.

The primary objective of the HBP is to create an ICT-based research infrastructure for brain research, cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired computing, which can be used by researchers world-wide.

The Project is divided into 12 Subprojects. Six of these develop ICT-based platforms (Subprojects 5-10), which consist of prototype hardware, software, databases, and programming interfaces. These tools are available to researchers worldwide via the HBP Collaboratory. Four Subprojects gather data on empirical neuroscience and establish theoretical foundations (Subprojects 1–4) and one is responsible for ethics and society (Subproject 12). Subproject 11 coordinates the project.

 SP1 Mouse Brain Organisation: Understanding the structure of the mouse brain, and its electrical and chemical functions
 SP2 Human Brain Organisation: Understanding the structure of the human brain, and its electrical and chemical functions
 SP3 Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding how the brain performs its systems-level and cognitive functional activities
 SP4 Theoretical Neuroscience: Deriving high-level mathematical models to synthesize conclusions from research data
 SP5 Neuroinformatics Platform: Gathering, organising and making available brain data
 SP6 Brain Simulation Platform: Developing data-driven reconstructions of brain tissue and simulation capabilities to explore these reconstructions
 SP7 High-performance Analytics and Computing Platform: Providing the ICT capability to map the brain in unprecedented detail, construct complex models, run large simulations, and analyse large volumes of data
 SP8 Medical Informatics Platform: Developing the infrastructure to share hospital and medical research data for the purpose of understanding disease clusters and their respective disease signatures
 SP9 Neuromorphic Computing Platform: Developing and applying brain-inspired computing technology
 SP10 Neurorobotics Platform: Developing virtual and real robots and environments for testing brain simulations
 SP11 Management and Coordination: General coordination of the project
 SP12 Ethics and Society: Exploring the ethical and societal impact of HBP's work

The HBP is coordinated by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and involves researchers from over 117 partner institutions in 19 countries across Europe. Notable Partner Institutions include the University of Heidelberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the University Hospital of Lausanne.

The scientific direction is provided by representatives from each of the HBP's Subprojects, which form the Science and Infrastructure Board (SIB). Katrin Amunts from Forschungszentrum Jülich is the Chair of the SIB. Alois Knoll from TU Munich is Vice Chair of the SIB for software. The Directorate steers the daily work of the HBP – it is led by Andreas Mortensen from EPFL.

Funding
The HBP is funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) under the FP7 framework, an EU Research and Innovation funding programme. It was one of the two initial Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship projects.

The project is split into five phases, each supplied with separate funding. The call for funding for the Project's initial two-and-a-half-year 'Ramp-Up Phase' of  EUR 54 million closed in November 2013 and the results were announced in March 2014. Twenty-two projects from thirty-two organisations were selected for the initial funding of EUR 8.3 million. The Ramp-Up Phase ended on 31 March 2016. Funding is reassessed every two years using Specific Grant Agreements (SGA); the first of which began in April 2016 (ending in April 2018), and the second with a total EU funding of 88 Million Euro starting in April 2018 (ending in March 2020). The HBP's total costs are estimated at EUR 1.019 billion, of which EUR 500 million will be provided by the European Commission, EUR 500 million by national, public and private organisations, and EUR 19 million by the Core Project Ramp-Up Phase Partners.

Obstacles
One of the Project's primary hurdles is the unsystematic nature of the information collected from previous brain research. Neurological research data varies by biological organisation schemes, species studied, and by developmental stages, making it difficult to collectively use the data to replicate the brain in a model that acts as a single system.

Other obstacles include engineering problems involving power consumption, memory, and storage. For example, detailed neuron representations are very computationally expensive, and whole brain simulation is at the leading edge of our computational capability.

Implications

Technologies generated by the HBP and other similar projects offer several possibilities to other fields of research. For instance, a brain model can be used to investigate signatures of disease in the brain and the impact of certain drugs, enabling the development of better diagnosis and treatment methods. Ultimately, these technologies will likely lead to more advanced medical options available to patients at a lower cost.

In addition, detailed brain simulation requires significant computing power, leading to developments in supercomputing and energy-efficient, brain-inspired computing techniques. Computational developments can be extended into areas such as data mining, telecommunications, appliances, and other industrial uses.

The long-term ethical consequences of the Project are also considered. The Project follows a policy of Responsible Research and Innovation, and its Ethics Advisory Board is responsible for monitoring the use of human volunteers, animal subjects, and the data collected. Implications on European society, industry, and economy are investigated by the HBP Ethics and Society Programme's Foresight Lab.

Criticism
An open letter was sent on 7 July 2015 to the European Commission by 154 European researchers (750 signatures as of 3 September 2014) complaining of the HBP's overly narrow approach, and threatening to boycott the project. Central to this controversy was an internal dispute about funding for cognitive scientists who study high level brain functions, such as thought and behaviour. However, the HBP stated that there is "no question that cognition and behaviour are vital to the HBP", explaining that cognitive neuroscience research was repositioned in the project to allow the core project to focus on building the platforms. In addition, The open letter called on the EC to “reallocate the funding currently allocated to the HBP core and partnering projects to broad neuroscience-directed funding to meet the original goals of the HBP—understanding brain function and its effect on society”. In its response, the HBP said that "while neuroscience research generates a vast amount of valuable data, there is currently no technology for sharing, organising, analysing or integrating this information, beyond papers and even databases. The HBP will provide the critical missing layer to move towards a multi-level reconstruction and simulation of the brain". It added that "cognitive and behavioural neuroscience will become the most significant component of neuroscience in HBP over the course of the project. However, for this to happen the platforms have to be in place first".

Peter Dayan, director of computational neuroscience at University College London, argued that the goal of a large-scale simulation of the brain is radically premature,  and Geoffrey Hinton said that "the real problem with that project is they have no clue how to get a large system like that to learn". Similar concerns as to the project's methodology were raised by Robert Epstein.

The HBP has said that its members share the uncertainty surrounding large-scale simulation, but that “reconstructing and simulating the human brain is a vision, a target; the benefits will come from the technology needed to get there. That technology, developed by the HBP, will benefit all of neuroscience as well as related fields”.

In 2015 the project underwent a review process and the three-member executive committee, led by Henry Markram, was dissolved and replaced by a 22-member governing board.

According to a 2019 article, "In 2013, the European Commission awarded his initiative—the Human Brain Project (HBP)—a staggering 1 billion euro grant (worth about $1.42 billion at the time)...the people I contacted struggled to name a major contribution that the HBP has made in the past decade."

See also

 Blue Brain Project
 BRAIN Initiative, US initiative
 Brain/MINDS
 China Brain Project
 Decade of the Brain
 Decade of the Mind
 Human Connectome Project
 List of artificial intelligence projects
 Noogenesis
 SpiNNaker
 Brain atlas

References

Further reading

  (A report of HBP 10 years)

External links

 HBP-Neurorobotics

Computational neuroscience
Cognitive modeling
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Neuroscience projects
European Commission projects
Supercomputing in Europe


The 84th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania and has been represented by Joseph Hamm since 2021.

District profile
The 84th district encompasses part Lycoming County and all of Sullivan County and includes the following areas:

Lycoming County

 Anthony Township
 Bastress Township
 Brown Township
 Cascade Township
 Cogan House Township
 Cummings Township
 Eldred Township
 Fairfield Township
 Franklin Township
 Gamble Township
 Hepburn Township
 Hughesville
 Jackson Township
 Jersey Shore
 Jordan Township
 Lewis Township
 Limestone Township
 McHenry Township
 McIntyre Township
 McNett Township
 Mifflin Township
 Mill Creek Township
Montoursville
 Moreland Township
 Muncy
 Muncy Township
 Muncy Creek Township
 Nippenose Township
Old Lycoming Township
 Penn Township
 Piatt Township
 Picture Rocks
 Pine Township
 Plunketts Creek Township
 Porter Township
 Salladasburg
 Shrewsbury Township
 Upper Fairfield Township
 Watson Township
 Wolf Township
Woodward Township

Sullivan County

Representatives

References

Government of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
Government of Union County, Pennsylvania
84


Raydon Wood railway station was a station in Suffolk, on a short branch line from Bentley Junction to Hadleigh. There was a goods shed on a passing loop which included a small siding on the south side of the station at the Bentley end.

Together with  it was extensively used for handling supplies in World War II for a nearby United States Army Air Forces base, later known as RAF Raydon.

The line opened in 1847 and closed to passenger traffic in 1932, with freight services lingering on until 1965.

The station building still stands, in disrepair and unused next to CPL Distribution, a coal merchant's depot.  It is unknown who owns the Station Building but it is boarded up and not part of CPL Distribution

References

External links
 Raydon Wood station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
 The Story of Hadleigh's railway

Disused railway stations in Suffolk
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1932
1847 establishments in England
Babergh District


Raghavendra Gadagkar is an honorary professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using Ropalidia marginata, a locally common wasp as a model. He was, from 2014 to 2016, the president of the Indian National Science Academy.

Gadagkar has published over 275 scientific papers and articles in various international journals as well as in Indian journals like Current Science magazine, and the Journal of Biosciences (India). His work on the evolution of eusociality using the theory of "assured fitness returns" which has been examined using empirical data  is considered as a significant landmark and advance over the idea of inclusive fitness introduced by W. D. Hamilton in 1964. He helped established a research group that has examined theoretical predictions, proximate and ultimate factors in the evolution of sociality in wasps. Some of his opinion pieces on science policy have been questioned, such as his exception to the pay to publish, free to read Open Access science publishing model.

His first book, Survival Strategies, has been translated into Chinese and Korean. It uses simple language to explain recent advances in behavioural ecology and sociobiology to a general audience.

He has also written a more technical book, The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata: Towards understanding the evolution of eusociality, which puts together over twenty years of his research about the evolution of eusociality.

Since 2002 he is a Non-resident Permanent Fellow at the  German institute Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

In 2006 Gadagkar became one of the very few Indian scientists to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to science research including Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany) in 2015, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biology in 1993 and the TWAS Prize in 1999.

He holds a number of other academic positions. He is the founding chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore. He is an honorary professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is a Non-resident Permanent fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a chairman of Research Council for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in July 2012.

In 2004, Gadagkar helped set up the Centre for Contemporary Studies in the Indian Institute of Science. This department aimed to support interdisciplinary discourse.

References

Further reading

External links

 Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar's home page
 CCS

1953 births
Indian ecologists
Evolutionary biologists
Living people
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science
Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Scientists from Bangalore
20th-century Indian biologists
TWAS laureates


The Three Stooges Collection is a series of DVD collections of theatrical short subjects produced by Columbia Pictures starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. Each volume is a two-disc set, and covers a three-year interval, with the exception of Volume Eight, which is a three-disc set and covers the last five years at Columbia.

The series was first made available by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on October 30, 2007 and released Volume One: 1934-1936 and marked the first time the comedy team's shorts were released on DVD in chronological order. In addition, every film was remastered in high definition, another first for the comedy team's body of celluloid works.

The series proved to be a success and was very popular, so Sony released, Volume Two: 1937-1939 on May 27, 2008. Three months later, Volume Three: 1940-1942 was released on August 26, 2008. Volume Four: 1943-1945 was released just two months later on October 7, 2008.

After the release of the fourth volume, the global economic crisis slowed down the release schedule. Volume Five: 1946-1948 was belatedly released on March 17, 2009. Volume Six: 1949-1951 was released three months later on June 16, 2009. Volume Seven: 1952–1954 was released on November 10, 2009, and included a pair of 3-D glasses to view the two shorts, Spooks! and Pardon My Backfire. As of 2013, the 3-D versions of these shorts have been removed for the current versions of this volume. The final volume, Volume Eight: 1955-1959, was released on June 1, 2010, which is a three-disc set and covers the last five years with Columbia Pictures.

On June 5, 2012, all eight volumes were reissued in a box set entitled The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection, with the addition of a ninth, 3-disc volume entitled Rare Treasures from the Columbia Picture Vault. The additional volume featuring the feature films Rockin' in the Rockies and Have Rocket, Will Travel, several cartoons featuring the Stooges from the 1930s and 1940s, and a number of Columbia shorts featuring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita as solo comedians prior to joining the Stooges; several of these solo films are remakes of Stooge films.

On October 18, 2016, The Three Stooges: The Complete DVD Collection was released. It had all the DVDs from volumes 1 through 8 but it did not include the "Rare Treasures from the Columbia Picture Vault" discs. All eight volumes are also available on iTunes. On June 15, 2020, iTunes released The Three Stooges: The Complete Series, which features all 190 shorts in an entire collection.

Volume One: 1934–1936
The film's original release date is listed next to the title.

Disc One

1934
 001 Woman Haters (May 5)
 002 Punch Drunks (July 13)
 003 Men in Black (September 28)
 004 Three Little Pigskins (December 8)

1935
 005 Horses' Collars (January 10)
 006 Restless Knights (February 20)
 007 Pop Goes the Easel (March 29)
 008 Uncivil Warriors (April 26)
 009 Pardon My Scotch (August 1)
 010 Hoi Polloi (August 29)
 011 Three Little Beers (November 28)

Disc Two

1936
 012 Ants in the Pantry (February 6)
 013 Movie Maniacs (February 20)
 014 Half Shot Shooters (April 30)
 015 Disorder in the Court (May 30)
 016 A Pain in the Pullman (June 27)
 017 False Alarms (August 16)
 018 Whoops, I'm an Indian! (September 11)
 019 Slippery Silks (December 27)

Volume Two: 1937–1939

Disc One

1937
 020 Grips, Grunts and Groans (January 15)
 021 Dizzy Doctors (March 19)
 022 3 Dumb Clucks (April 17)
 023 Back to the Woods (May 14)
 024 Goofs and Saddles (July 2)
 025 Cash and Carry (September 3)
 026 Playing the Ponies (October 15)
 027 The Sitter Downers (November 26)

1938
 028 Termites of 1938 (January 7)
 029 Wee Wee Monsieur (February 18)
 030 Tassels in the Air (April 1)
 031 Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (May 20)
 032 Violent Is the Word for Curly (July 2)

Disc Two
 033 Three Missing Links (July 29)
 034 Mutts to You (October 11)
 035 Flat Foot Stooges (December 5)

1939
 036 Three Little Sew and Sews (January 6)
 037 We Want Our Mummy (February 24)
 038 A Ducking They Did Go (April 7)
 039 Yes, We Have No Bonanza (May 19)
 040 Saved by the Belle (June 30)
 041 Calling All Curs (August 25)
 042 Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (October 6)
 043 Three Sappy People (December 1)

Volume Three: 1940–1942

Disc One

1940
 044 You Nazty Spy! (January 19)
 045 Rockin' thru the Rockies (March 8)
 046 A Plumbing We Will Go (April 19)
 047 Nutty but Nice (June 14)
 048 How High Is Up? (July 26)
 049 From Nurse to Worse (August 23)
 050 No Census, No Feeling (October 4)
 051 Cookoo Cavaliers (November 15)
 052 Boobs in Arms (December 27)

1941
 053 So Long Mr. Chumps (February 7)
 054 Dutiful But Dumb (March 21)
 055 All the World's a Stooge (May 16)
 056 I'll Never Heil Again (July 11)

Disc Two
 057 An Ache in Every Stake (August 22)
 058 In the Sweet Pie and Pie (October 16)
 059 Some More of Samoa (December 4)

1942
 060 Loco Boy Makes Good (January 8)
 061 Cactus Makes Perfect (February 26)
 062 What's the Matador? (April 23)
 063 Matri-Phony (July 2)
 064 Three Smart Saps (July 30)
 065 Even as IOU (September 18)
 066 Sock-a-Bye Baby (November 13)

Volume Four: 1943–1945

Disc One

1943
 067 They Stooge to Conga (January 1)
 068 Dizzy Detectives (February 5)
 069 Spook Louder (April 2)
 070 Back from the Front (May 28)
 071 Three Little Twirps (July 9)
 072 Higher Than a Kite (July 30)
 073 I Can Hardly Wait (August 13)
 074 Dizzy Pilots (September 24)
 075 Phony Express (November 18)
 076 A Gem of a Jam (December 30)

Disc Two

1944
 077 Crash Goes the Hash (February 4)
 078 Busy Buddies (March 18)
 079 The Yoke's on Me (May 26)
 080 Idle Roomers (July 15)
 081 Gents Without Cents (September 22)
 082 No Dough Boys (November 24)

1945
 083 Three Pests in a Mess (January 19)
 084 Booby Dupes (March 17)
 085 Idiots Deluxe (July 20)
 086 If a Body Meets a Body (August 30)
 087 Micro-Phonies (November 15)

Volume Five: 1946–1948

Disc One

1946
 088 Beer Barrel Polecats (January 10)
 089 A Bird in the Head (February 28)
 090 Uncivil War Birds (March 29)
 091 The Three Troubledoers (April 25)
 092 Monkey Businessmen (June 20)
 093 Three Loan Wolves (July 4)
 094 G.I. Wanna Home (September 5)
 095 Rhythm and Weep (October 3)
 096 Three Little Pirates (December 5)

1947
 097 Half-Wits Holiday (January 9) (Curly Howard's final starring role)
 098 Fright Night (March 6) (Shemp Howard's first starring role)
 099 Out West (April 24)
 100 Hold That Lion! (July 17) (Curly Howard's final cameo role and first and only episode the four Stooges were shown.)

Disc Two
 101 Brideless Groom (September 11)
 102 Sing a Song of Six Pants (October 30)
 103 All Gummed Up (December 18)

1948
 104 Shivering Sherlocks (January 8)
 105 Pardon My Clutch (February 26)
 106 Squareheads of the Round Table (March 4)
 107 Fiddlers Three (May 6)
 108 The Hot Scots (July 8)
 109 Heavenly Daze (September 2)
 110 I'm a Monkey's Uncle (October 7)
 111 Mummy's Dummies (November 4)
 112 Crime on Their Hands (December 9)

Volume Six: 1949–1951

Disc One

1949
 113 The Ghost Talks (February 3)
 114 Who Done It? (March 3)
 115 Hokus Pokus (May 5)
 116 Fuelin' Around (July 7)
 117 Malice in the Palace (September 1) 118 Vagabond Loafers (October 6)
 119 Dunked in the Deep (November 3)

1950
 120 Punchy Cowpunchers (January 5)
 121 Hugs and Mugs (February 2)
 122 Dopey Dicks (March 2)
 123 Love at First Bite (May 4)
 124 Self-Made Maids (July 6)

Disc Two
 125 Three Hams on Rye (September 7)
 126 Studio Stoops (October 5)
 127 Slaphappy Sleuths (November 9)
 128 A Snitch in Time (December 7)

1951
 129 Three Arabian Nuts (January 4)
 130 Baby Sitters Jitters (February 1)
 131 Don't Throw That Knife (May 3)
 132 Scrambled Brains (June 7)
 133 Merry Mavericks (September 6)
 134 The Tooth Will Out (October 4)
 135 Hula-La-La (November 1)
 136 Pest Man Wins (December 6)

Volume Seven: 1952–1954

Disc One

1952
 137 A Missed Fortune (January 3)
 138 Listen, Judge (March 6)
 139 Corny Casanovas (May 1)
 140 He Cooked His Goose (July 3)
 141 Gents in a Jam (July 4)
 142 Three Dark Horses (October 16)
 143 Cuckoo on a Choo Choo (December 4)

1953
 144 Up in Daisy's Penthouse (February 5)
 145 Booty and the Beast (March 5)
 146 Loose Loot (April 2)
 147 Tricky Dicks (May 7)

Disc Two
 148 Spooks! (June 15) (First 3-D short, first flat widescreen short)
 149 Pardon My Backfire (August 15) (Second and last 3-D short)
 150 Rip, Sew and Stitch (September 3)
 151 Bubble Trouble (October 8)
 152 Goof on the Roof (December 3)

1954
 153 Income Tax Sappy (February 4)
 154 Musty Musketeers (May 13)
 155 Pals and Gals (June 3)
 156 Knutzy Knights (September 2)
 157 Shot in the Frontier (October 7)
 158 Scotched in Scotland (November 4)

Volume Eight: 1955–1959

Disc One

1955
 159 Fling in the Ring (January 6)
 160 Of Cash and Hash (February 3)
 161 Gypped in the Penthouse (March 10)
 162 Bedlam in Paradise (April 14)
 163 Stone Age Romeos (June 2)
 164 Wham-Bam-Slam! (September 1)
 165 Hot Ice (October 6)
 166 Blunder Boys (November 3)

1956
 167 Husbands Beware (January 5)
 168 Creeps (February 2)
 169 Flagpole Jitters (April 5)

Disc Two
 170 For Crimin' Out Loud (May 3)
 171 Rumpus in the Harem (June 21)
 172 Hot Stuff (September 6)
 173 Scheming Schemers (October 4)
 174 Commotion on the Ocean (November 8) (Shemp Howard's final starring role)

1957
 175 Hoofs and Goofs (January 31) (Joe Besser's first starring role)
 176 Muscle Up a Little Closer (February 28)
 177 A Merry Mix Up (March 28)
 178 Space Ship Sappy (April 18)
 179 Guns a Poppin (June 13)
 180 Horsing Around (September 12)

Disc Three
 181 Rusty Romeos (October 17)
 182 Outer Space Jitters (December 5)

1958
 183 Quiz Whizz (February 13)
 184 Fifi Blows Her Top (April 10)
 185 Pies and Guys (June 12)
 186 Sweet and Hot (September 4)
 187 Flying Saucer Daffy (October 9)
 188 Oil's Well That Ends Well (December 4)

1959
 189 Triple Crossed (February 2)
 190 Sappy Bull Fighters (June 4)

Rare Treasures from the Columbia Pictures Vault
3-DVD set of bonus material released with Ultimate Collection box set, focusing on solo films featuring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita. Also included were animated cartoons featuring the Stooges.

Disc One
Feature films starring the Three Stooges
 Rockin' in the Rockies (1945)
 Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)

Columbia Cartoons featuring the Three Stooges
 Bon Bon Parade (1935)
 Merry Mutineers (1936)
 A Hollywood Detour (1942)

Disc Two
Columbia Films shorts featuring/starring Shemp Howard
 Home on the Rage (1938) (Andy Clyde series)
 Glove Slingers (1939) (Glove Slingers series)
 Money Squawks (1939) (Andy Clyde series)
 Boobs in the Woods (1940) (Andy Clyde series)
 Pleased to Mitt You (1940) (Glove Slingers series)
 Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944) (partial remake of A Plumbing We Will Go)
 Open Season for Saps (1944) (remake of Charley Chase's initial Columbia short The Grand Hooter)
 Off Again, On Again (1945) (remake of Charley Chase's Time Out for Trouble)
 Where the Pest Begins (1945)
 A Hit with a Miss (1945) (remake of Punch Drunks)
 Mr. Noisy (1946) (remake of Charley Chase's The Heckler)
 Jiggers, My Wife (1946)
 Society Mugs (1946) (remake of Termites of 1938)
 Bride and Gloom (1947) (remake of Charley Chase's The Awful Goof)

Disc Three
Columbia Films shorts starring Joe Besser
 Waiting in the Lurch (1949)
 Dizzy Yardbird (1950)
 Fraidy Cat (1951) (remake of Dizzy Detectives)
 Aim, Fire, Scoot (1952) (remake of Boobs in Arms)
 Caught on the Bounce (1952)
 Spies and Guys (1953)
 The Fire Chaser (1954) (remake of Waiting in the Lurch)
 G.I. Dood It (1955) (remake of Dizzy Yardbird)
 Hook a Crook (1955) (remake of Fraidy Cat and Dizzy Detectives)
 Army Daze (1956) (remake of Aim, Fire, Scoot and Boobs in Arms)

Columbia Films shorts starring Joe DeRita
 Slappily Married (1946) (remake of Andy Clyde's A Maid Made Mad)
 The Good Bad Egg (1947) (remake of Andy Clyde's Knee Action)
 Wedlock Deadlock (1947) (remake of Monte Collins's Unrelated Relations)
 Jitter Bughouse (1948) (remake of The Radio Rogues' Do Your Stuff'')

References

External links

The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video Detailed synopses, with historical lore and anecdotes, of every short and film in this set, in chronological order with year dates.

Collection
Home video releases


is a Japanese animator, character designer, and anime director. His directorial works include Grenadier, Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro, Kiba, Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin and the 2011 anime adaptation of Hunter × Hunter. He is a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association. He joined Studio Live in 1982, and following the death of Toyoo Ashida, became the head of the company in 2011.

Filmography

Television
 Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God (1985) – Character design
 City Hunter '91 (1991) – Character design
 Gulliver Boy (1995) – Character design
 Pluster World (2003–2004) – Character design
 Area 88 (2004) – Character design
 Grenadier (2004–2005) – Director (Debut directorial work)
 Kiba (2006–2007) – Director
 Neuro: Supernatural Detective (2007–2008) – Director
 Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (2010) – Director
 Hunter × Hunter (second series) (2011–2014) – Director
The Vampire Dies in No Time (2021–2023) – Director

Film
Ryoma! Rebirth: The Prince of Tennis Movie (2021) – Director
Sand Land (2023) – Direction advisor

OVAs/ONAs
 Dancouga: Requiem for Victims (1986) – Character design
 Amon: The Darkside of The Devilman (2000) – Character design

Video games
 Pluster World ~Legendary Plust Gate~ (2003) – Character design
 Pluster World ~Pluston GP~ (2003) – Character design
 Pluster World ~Legendary Plust Gate EX~ (2003) – Character design

References

 Book references

External links

People from Kumamoto
1963 births
Anime directors
Sunrise (company) people
Madhouse (company) people
Living people


Shearson was the name of a series of investment banking and retail brokerage firms from 1902 until 1994, named for Edward Shearson and the firm he founded, Shearson Hammill & Co. Among Shearson's most notable incarnations were Shearson / American Express, Shearson Lehman / American Express, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Shearson Lehman Hutton and finally Smith Barney Shearson.

For its first eight decades, the firm operated independently and merged with several Wall Street securities firms including Hayden Stone & Co. and Loeb Rhoades & Co. In 1981, Shearson was acquired by American Express and operated as a subsidiary of the financial services company before being merged with Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb in 1984 and E.F. Hutton & Co. in 1988.

In 1993, Shearson was sold to Primerica, a predecessor of Citigroup, and merged with its retail brokerage business, Smith Barney, to create Smith Barney Shearson. The Shearson name was discontinued in 1994.

History
Shearson Lehman Hutton was the result of the combination of several Wall Street firms over a 25-year period beginning in the early 1960s that included Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb, E.F. Hutton, Hayden Stone & Co., Shearson, Hammill & Co., Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Hornblower & Company, and Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt, which ultimately came together under the ownership of American Express.

Shearson Hammill & Co. (1902–1974)

The Shearson name traces its origins to the formation of Shearson, Hammill & Co., a Wall Street brokerage and investment banking firm founded in 1902 by Edward Shearson and Caleb Wild Hammill. The firm originally built its business as a stock broker, as well as a broker of various commodities, particularly grain and cotton. The firm was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Before forming the firm, Shearson had served as comptroller of U.S. Steel and of Federal Steel Company before that. Shearson, who was raised in Ontario, Canada began his career as an auditor for the Wisconsin Central Railroad before taking a position in the steel industry in 1898. Shearson was an active member of New York society. Hammill, who was raised in Albion, Michigan, moved first to Chicago and subsequently to New York in 1890.

The firm was originally headquartered in the Empire Building at 71 Broadway in New York City and maintained another main office in Chicago. By the end of World War I, Shearson Hammill had six branch offices and seven correspondents.

In the 1960s, Shearson, Hammill became well known for its commercials that suggested "If You Want To Know What’s Going On On Wall Street, Ask Shearson Hammill". The firm had 63 offices in the US and internationally supported by a well-regarded securities research department.

Shearson Hayden Stone (1974–1979)

In the early 1970s, Shearson faced financial difficulties as did many of the venerable Wall Street firms in the midst of the 1973–1974 stock market crash. In response to the crisis, Shearson laid off a large portion of its staff in 1973. Meanwhile, through the 1960s and 1970s, Sanford I. Weill, the chairman of the up-and-coming Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt, had been acquiring many of Wall Streets oldest and most venerable investment banking and brokerage firms. By 1973, Weill's firm was known as Hayden Stone, Inc. following CBWL's acquisition of Hayden, Stone & Co. Despite its strong retail brokerage business, Shearson's capital reserves were diminished and, by 1974, it was clear that Shearson did not have sufficient capital to survive as an independent firm, opting to merge with Weill's better capitalized Hayden Stone, Inc. The combined firm was renamed Shearson Hayden Stone, as Weill retained the Shearson brand, which was widely recognized as a major underwriter and brokerage.

Shearson Loeb Rhoades (1979–1981)

Weill's next major target in 1979 was another prominent investment bank, Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co., which like Shearson had been suffering financial difficulties and was looking for a potential acquiror. During Mothers Day Weekend in 1979, Shearson and Loeb agreed to an $83 million ($ million today) all-stock merger to form Shearson Loeb Rhoades, with Weill assuming the position of CEO of the combined firm. At the time of the merger, Shearson Loeb Rhoades, with $260 million of combined assets and approximately $550 million of revenue, was among the largest investment banking houses. By most measures, Shearson became the second largest brokerage firm in the U.S. trailing only Merrill Lynch. The merger with Loeb Rhoades was more notable for introducing a stronger investment banking business to Shearson.

Shearson/American Express

During the 1980s, American Express embarked on an effort to become a financial services supercompany. In mid-1981, it purchased Sanford I. Weill's Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the second largest securities firm in the United States to form Shearson/American Express. Shearson Loeb Rhoades, itself was the culmination of several mergers in the 1970s as Weill's Hayden Stone, Inc. merged with Shearson, Hammill & Co. in 1974 to form Shearson Hayden Stone. Shearson Hayden Stone then merged with Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co. (formerly Loeb, Rhoades & Co. and Hornblower & Weeks) to form Shearson Loeb Rhoades in 1979. With capital totalling $250 million at the time of its acquisition, Shearson Loeb Rhoades trailed only Merrill Lynch as the securities brokerage industry's largest firm. After its acquisition by American Express, the firm was renamed Shearson/American Express.

After selling Shearson to American Express, Weill was given the position of president of American Express in 1983. The following year, Weill was named chairman and CEO of American Express's insurance subsidiary, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. Weill grew increasingly unhappy with responsibilities within American Express and his conflicts with American Express' CEO James D. Robinson III. Weill soon realized that he was not positioned to be named CEO and after the firm's merger with Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Weill chose to resign from American Express in August 1985. Weill would return to building a large financial services company of his own, which would become Citigroup and would go on to acquire the core Shearson brokerage business that he had built in the 1960s and 1970s.

Shearson Lehman Brothers

In 1984, American Express acquired the investment banking and trading firm, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and added it to the Shearson family, creating Shearson Lehman/American Express.

Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, which itself was the merger of Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb in 1977 was led by Pete Peterson, a former United States Secretary of Commerce and future founder of the Blackstone Group. However, by the early 1980s, hostilities between the firm's investment bankers and traders, who were driving most of the firm's profits, prompted Peterson to promote Lewis Glucksman, the firm's President, COO and former trader, to be his co-CEO in May 1983. Glucksman introduced a number of changes that had the effect of increasing tensions. Coupled with Glucksman’s management style and a downturn in the markets, these tensions resulted in a power struggle that ousted Peterson and left Glucksman as the sole CEO. Upset bankers who had soured over the power struggle left the company. The company suffered under the disintegration, and Glucksman was pressured into selling the firm. After the merger, Peter A. Cohen was named Chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman,

During this period, Shearson Lehman was aggressive in building its leveraged finance business in the model of rival Drexel Burnham Lambert. In 1989, Shearson backed F. Ross Johnson's management team in its attempted management buyout of RJR Nabisco but were ultimately outbid by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, who were backed by Drexel.

In 1984, Shearson/American Express purchased the 90-year-old Investors Diversified Services, bringing with it a fleet of financial advisors and investment products.

Shearson Lehman Hutton

In 1988, Shearson Lehman acquired E.F. Hutton & Co., a brokerage firm founded in 1904 by Edward Francis Hutton and his brother Franklyn Laws Hutton. Under the Hutton brothers and later Robert M. Fomon and the well-known Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb, E.F. Hutton became one of the largest brokerage firms in the U.S. Hutton was best known for its commercials in the 1970s and 1980s that used the phrase, "When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen".

In the 1980s, Hutton was caught up in a number of difficulties that ultimately led the firm to seek a buyer. Hutton's most serious trouble came from a check kiting scandal that was uncovered in 1985. Hutton branches were writing checks against accounts at various regional banks and then funding those accounts with checks from yet other banks. This strategy, known as "chaining," gave Hutton the use of money in both accounts until the checks cleared. In effect, Hutton was giving itself a free loan that also did not carry any interest. In early 1987, an internal Hutton probe revealed that brokers at an office in Providence, Rhode Island, laundered money for the Patriarca crime family. Although Hutton reported the investigation to the SEC, it was not enough to stop prosecutors from all but announcing that Hutton would be indicted. This last scandal was uncovered only a week before the 1987 stock market crash. By the end of November 1987, Hutton had lost $76 million, largely due to massive trading losses and margin calls that its customers could not meet.

On December 3, 1987, Hutton agreed to a merger with Shearson Lehman in a $1 billion ($ today) deal. The merger took effect in 1988, and the merged firm was named Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc.

Following the merger, dozens of Hutton brokers left the firm to join competitors. At the same time, the combined firm suffered dwindling business from individual investors as its focus was shifted to large corporate transactions. The Hutton brand was used until 1990, when American Express abandoned the name and the business was renamed Shearson Lehman Brothers. Joe Plumeri became the President & Managing Partner of Shearson Lehman Brothers in 1990.

In 1992, Shearson sold the Boston Company, an asset management group, to Mellon Financial. In December 1988, the Boston Company, had disclosed that it had overreported its earnings by $30 million.

Sale and spinoff
When Harvey Golub became CEO of American Express in 1993, he negotiated the sale of Shearson's retail brokerage and asset management business to Primerica. Primerica's Sanford I. Weill had been the architect of what had become Shearson/American Express in the 1960s and 1970s building up his small firm Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt into one of the largest brokerage firms in the US. The Shearson business was merged with Primerica's Smith Barney to create Smith Barney Shearson. Ultimately, the Shearson name was dropped in 1994.

In 1994, American Express spun off of the remaining investment banking and institutional businesses as Lehman Brothers. In 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers ended that firm.

The Shearson name over time
Shearson Hammill & Co., 1901–1974, an investment banking and brokerage firm founded by Edward Shearson
Shearson Hayden Stone, 1974–1979, formed through the merger of Shearson, Hamill and Hayden, Stone & Co.
Shearson Loeb Rhoades, 1979–1981, formed through the merger of Shearson Hayden Stone and Loeb Rhoades & Co.
Shearson/American Express, 1981–1984, formed through the acquisition of Shearson Loeb Rhoades by American Express
Shearson Lehman/American Express, 1984–1988, formed through the acquisition of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb
Shearson Lehman Hutton, 1988–1990, formed through the acquisition of E.F. Hutton & Co.
Shearson Lehman Brothers, 1990–1993
Smith Barney Shearson, 1993–1994, formed through the acquisition of Shearson by Primerica in 1993 and merger with its Smith Barney unit, prior to the discontinuation of the Shearson name

Acquisition history
The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):

Notable former employees
Richard Donchian, commodities and futures trader
Elaine Garzarelli, stock research analyst credited with predicting the Black Monday stock market crash of 1987
Stacy Johnson, author and host of Money Talks
Frederick H. Joseph, former CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert, co-founder of Morgan Joseph
Joe Plumeri, Citigroup executive, Chairman & CEO of Willis Group Holdings, and owner of the Trenton Thunder
 Peter Schiff (born 1963), stock broker, financial analyst, and author
Edward Shearson, founder
Randolph L. Speight
Sanford I. Weill, CEO of Citigroup who consolidated numerous investment banking firms under the Shearson brand before selling the company to American Express
Ben Habib, CEO of First Property Group plc

See also

American Express
Lehman Brothers
E. F. Hutton & Co.
Hayden Stone & Co.
Shearson, Hammill & Co.

References

CREATING A WALL STREET GIANT – For Weill, It's Doubly Sweet Deal. LA Times, March 13, 1993
Shearson Lehman Brothers Company History.  Funding Universe

Lehman Brothers
American Express
Defunct financial services companies of the United States
Financial services companies established in 1981
Financial services companies disestablished in 1994
Former investment banks of the United States
Shearson Lehman/American Express
Primerica


Senftenberg may refer to:
Senftenberg, a town in southern Brandenburg, Germany
Senftenberg, Austria
Žamberk, a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic, known as Senftenberg in German


Copper usnate is the copper salt of usnic acid. It has been used as an antimicrobial.

References

Antimicrobials
Copper(II) compounds


is a song by Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It was released as the lead single of their fifth studio album, World World World, on November 29, 2006. The song was conceived on tour when the director of the then-upcoming anime film, Tekkonkinkreet, approached the band and requested a theme song for his film. AKFG proceeded to compose the track and released it as a single a month prior to the film's December 23 debut. The single peaked at number four on the Oricon charts and sold over 50,000 copies in 2006 alone, becoming the 199th single of the year. The song was ranked 5th on fans request for band's 10th anniversary live setlist on September 14, 2013.

Music video
The music video for "Aru Machi no Gunjō" was directed by Hideaki Sunaga. Beginning with a sunrise, the PV alternates from an outer view of a city, the band playing the song in a garage, a raven inside a birdcage, and a fishtank holding a jellyfish before finally concluding with a sunset. The video was nominated for Best Rock Video at MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2007.

Track listing

Personnel
Masafumi Gotō – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Kensuke Kita – lead guitar, background vocals
Takahiro Yamada –  bass, background vocals
Kiyoshi Ijichi – drums
Asian Kung-Fu Generation – producer
Yusuke Nakamura – single cover art

Charts

Certifications

External links

References

Asian Kung-Fu Generation songs
2006 singles
Songs written by Masafumi Gotoh
2006 songs
Ki/oon Music singles
Songs written for animated films
Anime songs


Gilbert Schaller was the defending champion but lost in the final 7–5, 1–6, 6–2 against Tomás Carbonell.

Seeds

  Gilbert Schaller (final)
  Bohdan Ulihrach (first round)
  Carlos Costa (second round)
  Jiří Novák (quarterfinals)
  Alberto Berasategui (semifinals)
  Jordi Burillo (second round)
 n/a
  Jordi Arrese (first round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 1996 Grand Prix Hassan II draw

1996 ATP Tour
1996 Grand Prix Hassan II


Protiofate is a drug that has   antimycotic activity  and used in gynecology to treat yeast infections.

References

Thiophenes
Diketones


The head of the Republic of Ingushetia (, formerly president of the Republic of Ingushetia) is the highest office within the Government of Ingushetia, Russia. The head is elected by Parliament of Ingushetia. Term of service is five years.

History
On 4 June 1992, the Supreme Soviet of Russia adopted Act No. 2927-1 "On the formation of the Ingush Republic within the Russian Federation". Checheno-Ingushetia was officially divided into Ingushetia and Chechnya. On 2 November 1992, by the presidential decree, a state of emergency was introduced on the territory of the future Ingushetia and the Provisional Administration was created.

On February 28, 1993, elections of the President of the Ingush Republic were held, at which only one candidate was participating, Major General Ruslan Aushev. Having received the support of 99.94% of the voters, he became the first president of Ingushetia. On March 7, the inauguration of the first President of Ingushetia took place in the House of Culture of Nazran. On December 29, 2001, Aushev announced his early resignation.

On April 7, 2002, early presidential elections were held in the Republic of Ingushetia. Eight candidates applied for this post, but none of them received more than 50% of the vote. On April 28, 2002, Murat Zyazikov was elected in the second round with 53,15%. In 2004, at the initiative of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the elections of governors were canceled in favor of appointment of President's suggested candidates by the regional legislatures.

Since January 1, 2011, the position has been renamed from "President of the Republic of Ingushetia" to "Head of the Republic of Ingushetia". On June 1, 2012, a federal law came into force providing for the return of direct gubernatorial elections in Russia. On April 2, 2013, five months before the expected elections in Ingushetia, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which the regions were given the right to independently determine the procedure for electing a head of the region. On May 7, members of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia voted to abolish direct elections of the head of the republic.

List

Timeline

Notes

References

Politics of Ingushetia
Ingushetia


Gordon Donald Shirreffs (January 15, 1914 – February 9, 1996) was an American author, known mostly for writing Western and juvenile (young adult) novels. He also wrote a teleplay. Two of his novels, Judas Gun and Rio Bravo, were made into movies (Vivo per la tua Morte, 1968 Italy, A Long Ride from Hell, in the U.S.A.,  Oregon Passage (1957 film), respectively). One of his short stories ("Silent Reckoning") became the movie The Lonesome Trail (1955).

Biography
Gordon Shirreffs was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1914, soon after his mother emigrated from Scotland. When his National Guard unit was activated in 1940 Shirreffs served in World War II where he was stationed in Alaska's Aleutian Islands as part of the Pacific Theater. Following the war he attended Northwestern University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Shirreffs married Alice Johanna Gutwein on February 7, 1941 in El Paso, TX. They had two children, a daughter Carole (born 1943) and a son Brian (1946-2015), who died June 22, 2015, Long Beach, CA.

He lived in Granada Hills, San Fernando Valley, CA from 1952 until his death in 1996.

For a time in the 1950s, Shirreffs operated a hobby shop in Granada Hills.  In keeping with his Scottish roots, he was a member of one or more bagpipe bands in Burbank and San Fernando, CA.

Bibliography

Novels
 "Gunswift" (1956) (as Stewart Gordon)
 "Arizona Justice" (1956) (as Gordon Donalds)
 "Rio Bravo" (1956)
 "Code of the Gun" (1956)
 "Range Rebel" (1956)
 "Top Gun" (1957 (as Gordon Donalds)
 "Ambush on the Mesa"' (1957)
 "Fort Vengeance"' (1957)
 "Bugles on the Prairie" (1957)
 "Son of the Thunder People" (1957) (For Children)
 "Massacre Creek" (1958)
 "Shadow Valley" (1958)
 "Last Train from Gunhill" (Novelization of screenplay, 1959)
 "The Brave Rifles" (1959)
 "Trail's End" (1959)
 "Roanoke Raiders" (1959) (For Children)
 "The Lonely Gun" (1959)
 "Renegade Lawman" (1959)
 "Fort Suicide" (1959)
 "Shadow of a Gunman" (1959)
 "The Rebel Trumpet" (1959) (For Children)
 "Apache Butte" (1960)
 "They Met Danger" (1960)
 "The Mosquito Fleet" (1961) (For Children)
 "The Proud Gun" (1961)
 "Ride a Lone Trail" (1961)
 "The Gray Sea Raiders" (1961) (For Children)
 "Powder Boy of the Monitor" (1961)
 "The Valiant Bugles" (1962)
 "The Border Guidon" (1962)
 "Hangin' Pards" (1962)
 "Tumbleweed Trigger" (1962)
 "Action Front!" (1962) (For Children)
 "Voice of the Gun" (1962)
 "Rio Desperado" (1962)
 "The Haunted Treasure of the Espectros" (1962) (For Children)
 "The Cold Seas Beyond" (1963) (For Children)
 "Slaughter at Broken Bow" (1963)
 "Quicktrigger" (1963)
 "The Nevada Gun" (1963)
 "Gunslingers Three" (1963)
 "Mystery of Lost Canyon" (1963) (For Children)
 "Judas Gun" (1964)
 "The Hostile Beaches" (1964) (For Children)
 "Last Man Alive" (1964)
 "Too Tough to Die" (1964)
 "The Hidden Rider of Dark Mountain" (1964)
 "Blood Justice" (1964)
 "The Secret of the Spanish Desert" (1964) (For Children)
 "Now He is Legend" (1965)
 "The Lone Rifle" (1965)
 "The Enemy Seas" (1965) (For Children)
 "Barranca" (1966)
 "The Bolo Battalion" (1966) (For Children)
 "Southwest Drifter" (1967)
 "Torpedoes Away!" (1967) (For Children)
 "The Godless Breed" (1968)
 "Five Graves to Boothill" (1968)
 "The Mystery of the Lost Cliff Dwelling" (1968) (For Children)
 "The Killer Sea" (1968) (For Children)
 "Showdown in Sonora" (1969)
 "Jack of Spades" (1970)
 "Mystery of the Haunted Mine" (1970)
 "The Manhunter" (1970)
 "Brasada" (1972)
 "Bowman's Kid" (1973)
 "Renegade's Trail" (1974)
 "Shootout" (1974) (as Jackson Flynn)
 "Duel at Dodge City" (1974) (Novelization of Television Script, as Jackson Flynn)
 "Cheyenne Vengeance" (1975) (Novelization of Television Script, as Jackson Flynn)
 "The Apache Hunter" (1976)
 "The Marauders" (1976)
 "Rio Diablo" (1977)
 "Legend of the Damned" (1977)
 "Captain Cutlass" (1978)
 "Calgaich the Swordsman" (1980)
 "The Untamed Breed" (1981)
 "Bold Legend" (1982)
 "Glorieta Pass" (1984)
 "The Ghost Dancers" (1986)
 "Hell's Forty Acres" (1987)
 "Maximilian's Gold" (1988)
 "The Walking Sands" (1990)
 "The Devil's Dance Floor" (1994)

Omnibus
 Three from the West (1963)
 Blood Justice / Valiant Bugles (1985)
 Last Train from Gun Hill / Border Guidon (1992)
 Rio Diablo / Top Gun (1993)
 Shadow Valley / Fort Vengeance (1993)
 Showdown in Sonora / Manhunter (1995)
 Bowman's Kid / Renegade's Trail (1995)
 Apache Hunter / Marauders (1995)

References

 http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/gordon-d-shirreffs/

External links
 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794396/

1914 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
Western (genre) writers
American writers of young adult literature
Novelists from Chicago
20th-century American male writers
American people of Scottish descent


Nifuratel (brand name Macmiror, or — in combination with nystatin, — Macmiror Complex) is a drug used in gynecology. It is a local antiprotozoal and antifungal agent that may also be given orally. Nifuratel is not approved for use in the United States.

Nifuratel appears to have a broad antibacterial spectrum of action and is effective against Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma spp. as well as fungal infections from Candida spp.

Taken orally, or as a vaginal pessary, it is used in the treatment of a wide range of infections of the genito-urinary tract, especially if there is no accurate diagnosis available. For example, it may be used in the treatment of women exhibiting vaginal discharge where there is uncertainty as to whether the cause is Trichomonas vaginalis or Candida strains such as Candida albicans.

Side effects appear to be minimal or non-existent and it has a safe toxicological profile.

References

Thioethers
2-Oxazolidinones
Nitrofurans


Chlordantoin (clodantoin) is an antifungal drug used in gynecology.

References

Further reading

Antifungals
Hydantoins
Organochlorides


Sluger (plural slugeri; , ; sometimes also sulger ) was a historical rank traditionally held by boyars in Moldavia and Wallachia, roughly corresponding to a sort of Intendant or Master of the Larder. It originated in the Slavic služar.

Slugeri were in charge of supplying the courts of Moldavian or Wallachian Princes with meat mainly beef. They were also in charge of distributing meat to the court households.

References

Romanian noble titles
Romanian words and phrases


Sulfatolamide is a drug used in gynecology.  It is a combination of two sulfonamide antibacterials, sulfathiourea and mafenide.

References

Sulfonamide antibiotics
Combination drugs


The Capitol Years 65/77 is a compilation album by Glen Campbell, released in Europe only on February 22, 1999. The double CD  set contains previously released, single and album tracks that Campbell recorded for Capitol Records between 1965 and 1977.

AllMusic reviewer Bruce Eder awarded the compilation 5-out-of-5 stars, and stated "There is no definitive Glen Campbell compilation, but this 130-minute, two-disc set from England comes very close to it."

Track listing
Disc 1:
 "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Saint Marie) - 2:10
 "Guess I'm Dumb" (Brian Wilson, Russ Titelman) -  2:40
 "Less of Me" (Glen Campbell) - 2:36
 "Mary in the Morning" (Lendell, Cymbal) - 3:03
 "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford) - 2:57
 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:43
 "They'll Never Take Her Love Away From Me" (Leon Payne) - 2:21
 "Hey Little One" (Dorsey Burnette, Barry De Vorzon) - 2:33
 "Just Another Man" (Campbell, Allison) - 2:11
 "It's Over" (Jimmie Rodgers) - 2:04
 "Without Her" (Harry Nilsson) - 2:16
 "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (Chris Gantry) - 2:34
 "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:06
 "You're Young and You'll Forget" (Jerry Hubbard) - 2:19
 "Every Time I Itch I Wind Up Scratching You" (Campbell, Slate) - 1:53
 "Reason to Believe" (Tim Hardin) - 2:24
 "Galveston" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:40
 "Where's the Playground Susie" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:56
 "Got to Have Tenderness" (M. Torok, R. Redd) - 2:10
 "Mornin' Glory" (with Bobbie Gentry) - (Bobbie Gentry) - 2:53
 "True Grit" (Don Black, Elmer Bernstein) - 2:32
 "If This Is Love" (Campbell, Ezell) - 2:09
 "Try a Little Kindness" (Austin, Sapaugh) - 2:26
 "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (with Bobbie Gentry) (Bryant) - 2:33

Disc 2:
 "Honey Come Back" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:58
 "Folk Singer" (Daniels) - 2:45
 "Love Is Not a Game" (Goldstein, James) - 2:13
 "Everything a Man Could Ever Need" (Mac Davis) - 2:32
 "As Far as I'm Concerned" (Bobby Russell) - 2:40
 "It's Only Make Believe" (Conway Twitty, Jack Nance) - 2:27
 "Dream Sweet Dreams About Me" (Ragsdale) - 2:39
 "Just Another Piece if Paper" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:10
 "The Last Time I Saw Her" (Gordon Lightfoot) - 4:07
 "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home" (Joe South) - 2:32
 "London (I'm Comin' to See You)" (David Paich) - 3:21
 "You Might as Well Smile" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:31
 "About the Ocean" (Susan Webb) - 2:57
 "Adoration" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:12
 "Rhinestone Cowboy" (Larry Weiss) - 3:15
 "Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.)" (Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter) - 3:07
 "Marie" (Randy Newman) - 3:35
 "Comeback" (Lambert, Potter) - 3:24
 "Christiaan No" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:34
 "Southern Nights" (Allen Toussaint) - 2:58
 "Sunflower" (Neil Diamond) - 2:52
 "This Is Sarah's Song" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:35

Production
Compiled by Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs
Biography - Patrick Gilbert
Design - Phantom Industries

References

1999 compilation albums
Glen Campbell compilation albums
EMI Records compilation albums


Kikou Seiki Unitron (機甲世紀ユニトロン) (English: Armor Chronicles Unitron) is a video game. It was released in 2000 for the Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld game console. It is the sequel to Biomotor Unitron. It was only released in Japan.

Gameplay
The game takes place 400 years after Biomotor Unitron. Kikou Seiki Unitron plays similar to Biomotor Unitron with top down dungeons and menu-based combat. The game requires the player to upgrade their unitron robot with various weapons and accessories to compete against various enemies within the dungeon areas. Using a link cable two players can pit their unitrons against each other in a head-to-head battle.

External links
 Kikou Seiki Unitron at MobyGames
 Kikou Seiki Unitron at GameFAQs

2000 video games
Neo Geo Pocket Color games
Japan-exclusive video games
Role-playing video games
Video games developed in Japan


The Frank S. Sander House ("Springbough") is a  house located in Stamford, Connecticut. It was designed by the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1952.

Springbough is composed of mahogany, burnt face brick and glass and is built into the side of a rocky ledge. The house was restored in 1996 by Anne Del Gaudio.

In 2002 the house was toured by participants of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy meeting in New York.

See also
 List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

 Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006,  (S.354)
 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy 2002 Program

Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Houses in Stamford, Connecticut


Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was an English lecturer. The sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, Dickens made lecture tours in Australia, Europe, and the United States on his father's life and work.

Early life
Nicknamed "Sampson Brass" and "Skittles" by his father, Alfred Dickens was born at 1 Devonshire Terrace, near Regent's Park, and was baptized at the church of St. Mary Marylebone in London on 21 April 1846. He was named after his godfathers, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Count Alfred D'Orsay. Because of this choice of godfathers Alfred's christening became a popular topic among literary people. Father Prout wrote:

Edward Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edward Barton that Tennyson and Count D'Orsay had stood as godparents to one of Dickens's children, and that the unfortunate child had been named 'Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson', which he believed proved that 'Dickens was a snob ... For what is Snobbishness and Cockneyism, but all such pretensions and parade? It is one thing to worship heroes and another to lick their spittle.' Robert Browning wrote to Elizabeth Barrett, who shortly after married him in the same church in which Alfred Dickens had been baptized, wondering if she knows why Alfred Tennyson has been dining with Dickens to meet celebrities.

'What do you suppose caused all the dining and repining? He has been sponsor to Dickens's child in company with Count D'Orsay and accordingly the novus homo glories in the praenomia Alfred d'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ... You observe Alfred is common to both the godfather and the devil-father ... When you remember what the form of sponsorship is, to what it pledges you in the Church of England – and then remember that Mr. Dickens is an enlightened Unitarian – you will get a curious notion of the man, I fancy.'

Alfred Dickens was educated at Brackenbury's Military School at Wimbledon and at Mr Gibson's boarding school in Boulogne-sur-Mer, with his brothers Henry and Sydney. Alfred Dickens considered a career in the Army, in medicine, and in business, but after failing the entrance examination into the Army, instead he spent two years working in a China House in London.

He shared his father's love for fashionable clothing, and ran up bills, in his father's name, at various tailors. Persuaded by his father, he migrated to Australia in June 1865 aged 19, leaving behind many unpaid bills. His father came to see him off at Paddington Station.

Charles Dickens sent him with some money and letters of introduction, hoping that he would make a career there and that he would cease to be a financial drain upon his father. According to various letters, Charles Dickens sent his son to Australia "to seek his fortune"; although he saw Alfred as "steady and working, though not in the least brilliant," he had been anxious to get him "far away from home," being concerned about the negative influence of his brothers and the "idleness" of London. He was followed shortly afterwards by his younger brother Edward Dickens. Alfred Dickens remained in Australia for 45 years.

Australia

Dickens settled in Australia quickly, becoming manager of Corona station on the border of New South Wales and South Australia. He remained in Australia for 45 years. Charles Dickens having died in 1870, Alfred purchased Wangagong station, near Forbes with his share of his father's estate. In 1874 he moved to Hamilton, Victoria, to take up a position as a station agent.

Dickens married Augusta Jessie Devlin (1849–1878), known as 'The Belle of Melbourne", in a fashionable wedding in Toorak, Victoria, and with whom he had two daughters, Kathleen Mary (1874 – 1951) and Violet Georgina (1875 – 1952). Jessie Dickens died from her injuries on 14 December 1878 after having been thrown out of her carriage when a pony bolted. Alfred Dickens then moved to Melbourne, where he was persuaded by his younger brother Edward Dickens to start up their own stock and station agency, 'EBL Dickens and Partners'.

Later years
In Melbourne on 22 June 1888, Dickens married again, his new wife, Emily Riley (1863–1913), being 17 years his junior. The marriage was not a happy one, and there were no children. Severely hit financially when depression hit Victoria in the early 1890s, Alfred began to tour Australia giving lectures about his father's life and work. From 1910 he gave the lectures in Europe and America, in that year returning to Great Britain for the first time since 1865. He became the Vice President of the Dickens Fellowship.

While touring America in 1912 as a guest of honour during the Dickens Centennial celebrations, Dickens was taken ill at noon while strolling in the lobby of his hotel, the Astor Hotel in New York City. Taking to his bed, he slept for a while and then awoke and dictated a letter to one of his daughters in Australia explaining that his sudden illness had required him to cancel one of his speaking engagements. He died at 5:15 p.m. in his suite at the Astor Hotel, reportedly of acute indigestion after a few hours illness.

He was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in Manhattan on 14 April 1912 in a plot donated by the Trinity Corporation after his sister, Kate Perugini, had been contacted in London concerning the funeral arrangements. It had originally been thought that his body would be returned to England for burial. The funeral was attended by members of the American Dickens League, the Dickens Centenary Committee and other groups. In 1935 a permanent headstone of Barre, Vermont, granite was placed at the grave, the funds for which were collected by the children of the Church School of the Chapel of the Intercession. The lettering on the headstone is believed to be the same as that on Charles Dickens's grave in Westminster Abbey in London.

His brother, Henry Fielding Dickens, wrote of him, "He had been quite a stranger to the family from the time he went to Australia. He left two daughters, who came over to this country some years ago, and remain great favourites with all of us."

His name appears with those of his nine siblings on the monument next to his mother's grave in Highgate Cemetery in London.

See also
 Dickens family

References

External links
Dickens in The Sydney Morning Herald 24 December 2002, Retrieved on 2008-10-31
Dickens on Charles Dickens Biography, Life, Books and his work on Literature
'Dickens's Son Arrives: Has Spent Most of His Life in Australia -- Comes to Lecture' The New York Times 30 September 1911
Dickens on the Audubon Park website

1845 births
1912 deaths
People from the London Borough of Camden
Charles Dickens
Lecturers
Burials at Trinity Church Cemetery


The 85th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in  central Pennsylvania and has been represented by David H. Rowe since 2019.

District profile
The 85th District encompasses part of Juniata County, Mifflin County, and Union County and all of Snyder County, and includes the following areas:

Juniata County
Fayette Township
Monroe Township
Mifflin County
Burnham
Decatur Township
Derry Township

Snyder County
Middleburg
Selinsgrove
Shamokin Dam

Union County
East Buffalo Township
 Union Township

Representatives

References

Government of Snyder County, Pennsylvania
Government of Union County, Pennsylvania
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Vita Nelson is an entrepreneur and publisher and is the president of The Moneypaper, Inc., in Rye, NY, where she functions as editor of its numerous publications.  She is often cited as an expert on DRIP investing, having been quoted in publications as prestigious as The Wall Street Journal.

Career
Nelson graduated from Boston University with a degree in comparative literature. Her first job after college was at Mademoiselle magazine. She left Mademoiselle in 1960 to work on Wall Street for Granger & Company, working as a bond trader.

In 1969, with the help of Barbara Robson, Marlene Goldrich, and Barbara Reifler, she began Westchester Magazine, a monthly magazine that targeted Westchester County's upscale, arts-oriented crowd.  She went on to sell the magazine in 1980 and began searching for a business to acquire or establish with the proceeds from that sale. In 1981, she decided to start her own financial newsletter, and the first issue of The Moneypaper: A Financial Publication for Women was published in 1982.  She later dropped the subheading "after I started hearing from men who read the newsletter but subscribed to it under their wives' names," and has published it as simply The Moneypaper since that time.

Nelson was also involved in the creation of Temper of the Times Investor Services, Inc., a specialized broker that was initially created as a service for subscribers to The Moneypaper.

In 1999, she organized the MP 63 Fund (DRIPX), which she co-managed with David Fish, who also functioned as the executive editor of Moneypaper Inc. publications.

Her writing credits include Create and Manage Your Own Mutual Fund, co-authored with Donald J. Korn in 1994.  She also is the editor for the yearly publication, The Moneypaper's Guide to Direct Investment Plans.

Commentary
The following are a catalog of Vita Nelson's commentary in various publications.

The Wall Street Journal cited Nelson in a July 1999 article on DRIPs.

Forbes magazine cited Nelson in a December, 2000 article.

The Bull and Bear, a financial newsletter, ran an article authored by Vita Nelson in their December, 1999 issue.

The New York Times consulted Nelson for an article on DRIPs in September, 2000.

The Washington Post quotes Nelson in an article concerning DRIPs in a July, 1999 issue.

External links
Moneypaper's Website
MP 63 Fund Website
Temper of the Times Foundation

Notes

Living people
American publishers (people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American writers
American women writers


Dubice is a small village in the north of the Czech Republic. It lies 13 kilometres from Usti nad Labem, near Dolni Zalezly or Rehlovice, 325 metres above sea level. It has 233 inhabitants. It is known for its church Saint Barbora from where is a view on Porta Bohemica and Labe. This church was built in 1589-1595 and rebuilt in 1643 and 1820. Next to it is a restaurant where you can sit and watch the Labe valley. Dubice also has a football team Sokol Dubice.

References

Villages in Ústí nad Labem District


The Complete Works is a two-volume compilation album series of the titular complete works of space rock group Spiritualized. The first volume was released in 2003 and the second in 2004.

Track listing
All songs were written by J. Spaceman, unless otherwise noted.

Volume One
Disc one
 "Anyway That You Want Me" (Chip Taylor) - 6:29
 "Step into The Breeze (Part 1)" - 2:48
 "Feel So Sad (7-inch single version)" - 5:34
 "Feel So Sad (Rhapsodies)" - 13:19
 "Feel So Sad (Glides and Chimes)" - 6:34
 "Run (Single Version)" (J. J. Cale/Spaceman) - 3:12
 "Luminescence (Stay With Me)" - 5:08
 "I Want You" (Feel So Sad B-Side Version) - 3:45
 "Effervescent (Chimes)" - 7:13
 "Why Don't You Smile Now" (John Cale/Terry Philips/Lou Reed/Jerry Vance) - 5:45
 "Sway" (Mark Refoy/Spaceman) - 6:53

Disc two
 "100 Bars" (Accapella) - 4:16
 "I Want You" (Run B-Side Version) - 3:56
 "You Know It's True" (Instrumental) - 3:40
 "Medication" (Medication EP Version) - 8:16
 "Smiles" (Medication Promo Single Version) - 5:28
 "Angel Sigh" (Medication EP Version) - 4:44
 "Feel So Sad" (Medication EP Version) - 8:08
 "Good Dope/Good Fun" - 3:51
this track, though listed as the instrumental appearing on the Greenpeace split 7-inch, is in fact the EP mix or, as it was titled on US promo singles, the "Alternate Edited Master Version" of "Lay Back in the Sun")
 "Lay Back in the Sun" (Electric Mainline EP Version) - 3:48
 "Good Times" (Electric Mainline EP Version) - 4:10
 "Electric Mainline (Part 1)" - 7:49
 "Electric Mainline (Part 2)" - 8:41
 "100 Bars (Flashback)" - 5:57

Volume Two
Disc one
 "Let it Flow" – 5:31
 "Don't Go/Stay with Me" – 6:05
 "Don't Go/Stay with Me (The Individual)" – 4:39
 "Broken Heart (Instrumental) (Japanese Version)" – 8:09
 "Lay Back in the Sun (Single Version)" – 3:44
 "Cool Waves (Instrumental)" – 3:06
 "Electricity" – 3:49
 "Spread Your Wings (Instrumental)" – 6:17
 "Come Together" – 3:22
 "I Think I'm in Love (Radio Edit)" – 3:58
 "Broken Heart" – 3:46
 "The X-Files Theme" (Mark Snow) – 3:34
 "Broken Heart (Instrumental)" – 4:18

Disc two
 "Stop Your Crying" – 5:15
 "Anything More (Instrumental)" – 3:10
 "Rock and Roll" – 3:30
 "Out of Sight" – 6:09
 "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You (Instrumental)" – 5:12
 "Going Down Slow" – 3:55
 "Do it All Over Again" – 3:47
 "On Fire (Live)" – 7:21
 "Amazing Grace (Peace on Earth)" (Traditional) – 7:02
 "Do it All Over Again (Live)" – 7:03
 "Come Together (Live)" – 4:16
 "Going Down Slow (Instrumental)" – 3:55
 "Rock and Roll (Instrumental)" – 3:31

References

Compilation album series
Spiritualized albums
2003 compilation albums
2004 compilation albums
Arista Records compilation albums


Sophie Lyons (December 24, 1848 – May 8, 1924) was an American criminal and one of the country's most notorious female thieves, pickpockets, shoplifters, and confidence women during the mid-to-late 19th century. She and her husbands Ned Lyons, Jim Brady and Billy Burke were among the most sought-after career criminals in the U.S. and Canada, being wanted in several major cities including New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit and Montreal from the 1860s until the turn of the 20th century.

She and Lyons were prominent underworld figures in New York City during the post-American Civil War era as associates of Marm Mandelbaum, Lyons being a member of Mandelbaum's "inner circle" during the 1860s and 1870s. She eventually retired from criminal life and spent her later years involved in the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents, and providing financial assistance and housing for reformed criminals and their families. Her autobiography, Why Crime Does Not Pay (1913), was published and distributed by publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Biography

Early life and criminal career
Lyons was Jewish. She was born in Lauben, Germany, on December 24, 1848. Her mother taught her to pickpocket and shoplift and forced her out into the street to steal. Lyons claimed she had been first caught stealing at the age of three and was tried at the Essex Market police court, and she was again arrested for shoplifting at 12.

Lyons married another pickpocket, Maury Harris, when she was 16, but the marriage ended when Harris was arrested and sentenced to New York State Prison for two years. During her youth, she became known as a skilled pickpocket and confidence woman. She was considered a consummate actress who, even when caught by her victim, was able to "counterfeit every shade of emotion" to persuade them to release her. According to one incident in 1880, she was able to convince a store detective that she suffered from kleptomania.

Lyons eventually married Ned Lyons, known then as the "King of the Bank Robbers", and Sophie had six children during the marriage. Two years after their marriage, Ned was able to purchase a home from his share in a major bank robbery. Although he tried to discourage Lyons from pickpocketing, she continued to do so. In 1870 Ned was caught during an attempted bank robbery in Wyoming County, New York, and sent to Auburn Correctional Facility. Sophie pulled strings to get him moved to Sing Sing prison, where security was more lax. However she was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Sing Sing herself in 1871. Using a disguise, Ned escaped from the prison in 1872. He returned a few weeks later and helped his wife escape and they fled to Canada with their children.

Court battle with George Lyons
On the afternoon of January 31, 1880, Lyons returned to the Essex Market police court where she brought her oldest son, 14-year-old George, before the magistrate. She claimed he refused to attend school, often left home at nights to sleep in the streets and "was so generally unruly" that she requested that he be put in a juvenile correctional facility.

After she had finished, George shouted, "That woman is a thief and a shoplifter. I have seen her steal in Montreal and elsewhere." He denied his mother's charges, claiming she wanted to get rid of him, and that he had "recommendations showing his good character". He went on to make further criminal charges against his mother, continuing, "Yes, you want to get rid of me, and you're my mother. How can I tell you are when you have two husbands with whom you go all over the country, stealing everywhere?" These accusations caused a disturbance in the court room and the magistrate called for a recess to listen to both mother and son in private.

Lyons confessed to her criminal past and being the wife of Ned, however she maintained that she had spent considerable time and effort trying to keep her children from becoming criminals. She had sent George to three colleges in Canada, and her two daughters attended schools in Germany, but George returned to New York and began frequenting underworld resorts, including Dan Kerrigan's infamous Sixth Street saloon, where he performed as a singer and associated with known criminals. She also said that her son had obtained at least one of his recommendations by threatening a former employer by the name of Kate B. Woodward with a carving knife.

After hearing of this incident, Lyons invited George to her home on Montgomery Street and had him arrested by waiting police officers. George admitted that he had an argument with Woodward, who had withheld his pocket watch, but denied intimidating her to obtain his recommendation. He did admit to picking up a carving knife during the argument, but claimed he did not use it towards her or use threatening language. He was reportedly disruptive while his mother made her statement, making claims of child neglect and abandonment. The magistrate ruled that George would be held in custody until the claims of both parties could be investigated. George, being informed that he would not be released, had to be escorted from the court room by police and attempted to choke himself by swallowing a handkerchief.

Relocating to Detroit
By 1880 Lyons had split from Ned and moved her base of criminal operations to Detroit, partly due to the city's proximity to Canada. She spent much of the 1890s in the Midwest as a member of a burglary gang led by Billy Burke, whom she would later marry. She returned to New York in 1895 and, after her arrest by police detective Stephen O'Brien, she was put under close police surveillance by Brooklyn detectives, under orders from Superintendent McKelvey.

1896 Return to New York City

On the afternoon of June 21, 1896, Lyons entered a dry goods store at Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street. Lyons, then using the alias Mary Watson, was approached by store detective Mary Plunkett, who had recognized her, and who informed her she was wanted by local police. When Lyons dismissed her, Plunkett grabbed her arm, attempting to bring her in by force. A crowd began to gather as the argument escalated. Plunkett told the crowd that "one of the most notorious pickpockets in the world" was standing before them. At that point, Lyons got free of Plunkett and left the store with the detective in pursuit. Plunkett pursued Lyons onto a streetcar, where she informed the driver that Lyons was wanted by police. The driver allowed Lyons onto the streetcar, replying to Plunkett that it was none of his business. As they reached Eighteenth Street, Plunkett was able to call two patrolmen and had Lyons placed under arrest.

Lyons refused to be taken back to the dry goods store, insisting that she be searched to prove her innocence, but was instead arrested and taken to the Mercer Street police station. She was held at the precinct until her arraignment at the Jefferson Market police court on June 22. She was charged with the theft of a pocketbook from an unknown woman in New Jersey, which contained $12 and a railroad ticket, and it was requested by the court that she be remanded. Her lawyer, Emanuel Friend, successfully argued for her release by pointing out the largely vague circumstances of the charges and the absence of the store detective. The magistrate agreed that the city had no evidence to prosecute Lyons and dismissed her case.

Retirement and later years
Following her "retirement" from crime in 1913, Lyons wrote her memoir, Why Crime Does Not Pay, and became a known philanthropist and prison reformer in Detroit. She also owned 40 houses, not including vacant property, due to real estate and business investments worth $500,000 (equivalent to $ million in ). She publicly offered to provide rent-free homes for any criminals with families who were brought to Detroit by the Pathfinders' Club reform group. On February 2, 1916, she announced at the Pathfinders' annual dinner that she would be donating land worth $35,000 to establish a building for juvenile delinquents.

The Pathfinders' Club operated a similar "character building" facility at Lafayette Boulevard on Twenty-Fourth Street. Lyons specified that the gift was offered on the following condition: "The home is to be devoted to the work of convincing children who have begun to be criminals that they have chosen the wrong path, and also to training them so that they will have the strength to go alright. A secondary purpose is to provide a place in which adults who have fallen into crime may get a new start in life."<ref>"Sophie Lyons Offers Gift.; Retired Thief Has Site for Criminals Home in Detroit". The New York Times, February 3, 1916</ref>

Not all of her subjects wanted to be reformed. On May 8, 1924, she let three men into her home- supposedly in the hope of reforming them. They asked her for the money and valuables that were reportedly hidden around her house. She refused. Her neighbors found her on the floor, in a coma. Her skull had been crushed. Taken to Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, Lyons died later that evening of a massive brain hemorrhage. She was seventy-six years old.

References

16. https://www.amazon.com/crime-encyclopedia-notorious-outlaws-mobsters/dp/0787631639
The Crime Encyclopedia The World's Most Notorious OUTLAWS, MOBSTERS, and CROOKS C.Jorris Opaze-Addo

Further reading
Browning, Frank and John Gerassi. The American Way of Crime: From Salem to Watergate, a Stunning New Perspective on Crime in America. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.
Byrnes, Thomas. 1886 Professional Criminals of America. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1969.
Davidson, Shayne. Queen of the Burglars: The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons. Jefferson, N.C.: Exposit Books, 2020.
De Grave, Kathleen. Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-century America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995.
Gardner, Hy. Champagne Before Breakfast. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1954.
Horan, James D. and Howard Swiggett. The Pinkerton Story. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951.
Voss, Frederick and James Barber. We Never Sleep: The First Fifty Years of the Pinkertons''. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.

External links

 Sophie Levy, alias Lyons, Professional Criminals of America by Byrnes
 Sophie Burke Lyons Levy mugshot, 1912, Stockholm, Sweden
 Queen of the Burglars: Sophie Lyons on Criminal Broads Podcast
Sophie "Queen of the Burglars" Lyons w/ Shayne Davidson on Most Notorious: A True Crime History Podcast

1847 births
1924 deaths
Criminals from New York City
People from Detroit
Jewish American gangsters


John Mill Ackerman Rose is an American-born, naturalized Mexican political activist, TV host, and academic at UNAM.

Early life and education
He is the son of social liberal thinker Bruce Ackerman and the economist Susan Rose-Ackerman, both professors at Yale Law School.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College while he received his MA and PhD in Political Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Career
Ackerman is a professor of constitutional law at UNAM's Law School, and editor-in-chief of the Mexican Law Review magazine.

He has contributed to international newspapers such as Proceso, La Jornada, El Universal, Reforma of Mexico, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune in the United States and The Guardian in the United Kingdom on the topics of corruption control, elections, transparency, accountability, autonomous institutions and citizen participation.

He has also published research results in World Development, Administrative Law Review, Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, Mexican Law Review, Gestión y Política Pública, Perfiles Latinoamericanos. He has also served as a senior consultant for the World Bank as well as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, PNUD, Global Integrity, Open Society Institute, International Budget Partnership, Secretary of the Public Function, United Nations Development Programme, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the Chamber of Deputies and for the Head of Government of the Federal District.

He is the host of two political talk shows, Diálogos por la democracia in TV UNAM, and John y Sabina with Sabina Berman, broadcast by Canal Once. The John y Sabina show has been criticized by the opposition as being government propaganda expensively funded with public money.

Political ideology
Ackerman is an activist for left-wing causes and an active supporter of National Regeneration Movement (Morena), a political party, and of its leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He is married to Irma Eréndira Sandoval, former member of the cabinet as Minister of Public Administration.

Ackerman defended the government of Nicolas Maduro, saying Venezuela was "much more democratic and respectful of human rights than Mexico". In the same article, published on La Jornada on 27 March 2017, Ackerman claims there is no electoral fraud in Venezuela, that there is constant media censorship in Mexico, that there are more political prisoners in Mexico than in any other Latin American country and that there is a clear separation of branches of government in Venezuela. He also claimed that Mexico is worse off than Venezuela in terms of corruption, poverty, inequality and violence.

Publications
 Social Accountability in the Public Sector: A Conceptual Discussion (World Bank, 2005)
 Leyes de acceso a la información pública en el mundo (Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información Pública, 2005)
 Estructura institucional para la rendición de cuentas: Lecciones internacionales y reformas futuras (Auditoría Superior de la Federación, 2006)
 Organismos autónomos y democracia: el caso de México (Siglo XXI Editores-Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, 2007)
 Más allá del acceso a la información: Transparencia, rendición de cuentas y Estado de Derecho (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM-Cámara de Diputados-Siglo XXI Editores-Univ. de Guadalajara-CETA, 2008)
 El mito de la transición democrática: Nuevas coordenadas para la transformación del régimen mexicano (Editorial Planeta, 2015)

Controversies

Comparison of journalists with drug cartel hitmen
On June 27, 2020, the head of Public Security in Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, survived an attempt on his life which he later blamed on the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Reacting to the news, Ackerman published a tweet in his personal Twitter account comparing journalists who have been critical of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador with drug cartel hitmen (sicarios), calling them "media sicarios". Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (in Spanish  Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, CNDH) and Reporteros Sin Fronteras condemned Ackerman's tweet, calling it "irresponsible" given that Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists.

Participation in the technical evaluation committee of the National Electoral Institute
In February 2020 Ackerman was proposed by Rosario Piedra Ibarra, director of the National Human Rights Commission to be a member of the technical evaluation committee of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (in Spanish Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE). This committee has an important role in selecting INE's new directors and Ackerman's nomination was met with criticism due to his close personal and political affinity with the government, and being part of the ruling party's cadre training body. Congressman Juan Carlos Romero Hicks from the National Action Party (in Spanish Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) said that Ackerman did not meet the required neutral background, and René Juaréz Cisneros from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (in Spanish Partido Revolucionario Insitucional, PRI) asked the CNDH to reconsider the nomination due to Ackerman's position in a political party. Together with PAN and PRI, two other opposition parties, Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and Citizen's Movement (MC) contested without success Ackerman's designation, which was confirmed by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

References

Living people
American emigrants to Mexico
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Naturalized citizens of Mexico
Mexican political writers
Political science writers
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
Political commentators
1973 births


The Theater Lübeck (formerly Stage of the Hansestadt Lübeck, colloquially Stadttheater) is one of the largest theaters in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.  It is managed by Theater Lübeck GmbH, a state-owned company of the Hansestadt Lübeck.

Public interest in theatrical works and opera arose in Lübeck in the early days of the Age of Enlightenment and the first opera production in the city took place on 2 June 1746 in the house of master craftsman Schröder Ecke on the Königstraße.  The predecessor of the current building dates from 1752.  The transition of the company to the city in the 19th century is described by Thomas Mann in his novel Buddenbrooks.

Prominent conductors that began their careers in Lübeck include Hermann Abendroth, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Christoph von Dohnányi.

Structure
The Theater was built in 1908 in the Art Nouveau style, on the site of an 18th-century theater on the Beckergrube in Lübeck's Old City.  It was designed by Martin Dülfer and construction was funded by local businessman and philanthropist Emil Possehl. The reliefs on the sandstone facade are the work of sculptor Georg Roemer. The relief in the center depicts Apollo and the Nine Muses, with Comedy and Tragedy represented on either side. The gable end supports depicting Caryatids and Atlas are the work of Hamburg plasterer Karl Weinberger. The facade and the entire building received a complete restoration in the 1990s.

The theater today
The theater offerings include a variety of cultural activities, including opera, ballet, chamber music, and plays, as well as concerts of the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra.

The theater management has included Karl Vibach (1968–1978), Hans Thoenies (1978–1991), Dietrich von Oertzen (1991–2000) and Marc Adam (2000–2007). Since 2007 the theater has been managed by committee.

50% of the proceeds of Theater Lübeck GmbH go to the city of Lübeck. 12.5% each go to the regional governments of the surrounding districts of Herzogtum Lauenburg and Nordwestmecklenburg, the Chamber of Commerce ("Kaufmannschaft"), and the Gesellschaft der Theaterfreunde e. V. Lübeck (Friends of the Theater).

References
Notes

Sources
Heinrich Asmus: Die dramatische Kunst und das Theater zu Lübeck (Dramatic arts and the theater at Lübeck). Von Rohden, Lübeck 1862
Klaus Matthias: Grossbauten der Lübecker Innenstadt nach 1900. Von der Überwindung des Historismus zum Jugendstil. In: Der Wagen 1992, S. 182–205 (see p. 193ff for details on architecture and the facade)
Carl Stiehl: Geschichte des Theaters in Lübeck (History of the Lübeck Theater). Borchers, Lübeck 1902

External links

 Official web site

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Gants Mill is a watermill on the River Brue in Pitcombe near Bruton, Somerset, England.

Much of the current mill was built in 1810 but includes parts of the 18th century building and  possibly some material from earlier mills, as there has been a mill on the same site since about 1290 which was originally a fulling mill. It is a grade II* listed building, and takes its name from John le Gaunt who owned it in 1290. The mill was owned for four centuries by the Weston family and papers relating to the mill are now held in the Somerset Record office.

Most of the machinery, including the grindstones, conveyors, sackhoist and grain bins, date from 1888 and is still used for grinding animal feed and occasionally whole wheat flour. A  British Empire turbine by Armfields of Ringwood was also installed. Steam power was introduced in 1883, and replaced by semi-diesel in 1914.

The South Somerset Hydropower Group was begun in 2001 and the first turbine, at Gants Mill, was commissioned in 2003. It was turned on by Adam Hart Davis on Friday 23 April 2004.  It now produces up to 12kW of electricity from a 300mm crossflow turbine. The system uses a crossflow turbine made by Valley Hydro of Cornwall, and has a maximum flow rate of 495 litres per second.

Brian Shingler is the sixth generation of his family to act as the miller.

The water garden includes seasonal displays of iris, roses, delphiniums, day lilies, clematis, and dahlias.

References

External links
 Gants Mill web site

Watermills in Somerset
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