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Jung Chan-sung (; born March 17, 1987), anglicized as Chan Sung Jung and better known by his ring name The Korean Zombie, is a South Korean former professional mixed martial artist.

He competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2007, Jung formerly fought for the WEC, Pancrase, World Victory Road, and DEEP. His nickname, The Korean Zombie, comes from his perceived zombie-like ability to continue to move forward and fight aggressively, even after taking heavy blows.

Background
Born in Pohang, South Korea in 1987, Jung moved to Namyangju, a satellite city of Seoul when he was in his mid-teens. Due to his slight stature and his rural origins, he was bullied constantly by his classmates and got into many fights as a result. When his aunt could no longer stand to see Jung's predicament, she took him to a nearby Hapkido gym when he was around 14 years old. Jung trained in Kickboxing until his junior year of high school. He graduated from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology. Later he also began training in Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

At the age of 18, Jung joined the South Korean Navy and started training in Taekwondo. In June 2007, he won a Sambo tournament arranged by the Korean Sambo Association, and in December of the same year, he won the Lightweight division of the Pancrase Korea Neo-Blood Tournament after defeating fellow South Koreans Yoo In Seok and Lee Hyung Geol. Aged 20, Jung began mixed martial arts and made his professional debut soon after. In May 2008, he participated in and won KOREA-FC's 8-man MMA tournament in the 65 kg division.
Jung was also a participant in a show called Street Fighter in 2007 which aired on South Korean cable television. He participated in the 70 kg tournament and won. The tournament was stand-up only (similar to K-1 but not in a ring).

Mixed martial arts career

Early career
Jung made his professional debut in June 2007 and in December the same year, he won a Lightweight Tournament arranged by Pancrase Korea. In 2008 he won both his fights for Japanese promotion DEEP. He then entered the 2009 Sengoku Featherweight Grand Prix where he won his first-round fight but was eliminated from the tournament by the eventual winner Masanori Kanehara.

On August 16, 2008, he defeated Michihiro Omigawa at DEEP: Gladiator via unanimous decision. His next fight was against Fanjin Son at DEEP: 39 Impact where he won via knockout in 17 seconds.

Sengoku
Jung then entered the 2009 Sengoku Featherweight Grand-Prix and was matched up with Shintaro Ishiwatari in his first-round fight at Sengoku 7. After dropping Ishiwatari once in stand-up striking, Jung hit Ishiwatari with a right hand forcing him to give up his back. From there Jung sunk in a rear-naked choke submission forcing Ishiwatari to submit at 4:29 of the first round.

In his second-round fight at Sengoku 8 on May 2, 2009, he lost via unanimous decision to Masanori Kanehara officially eliminating him from the tournament. The decision was considered questionable by the English commentators and many fans (especially given Sengoku's history of biased decisions against Korean fighters), who felt that Jung had done enough to deserve the decision. On June 7, 2009, it was announced Jung would face American Matt Jaggers at Sengoku 9 in a reserve bout for the tournament with the winner stepping in as a replacement should some of the remaining fighters be unable to continue. Jung ended up winning the fight by triangle choke submission at 1:25 of the second round, but was not required to step in as a replacement.

World Extreme Cagefighting
Chan Sung Jung then signed with World Extreme Cagefighting. He made his American and WEC debut against Leonard Garcia (who replaced injured opponent Cub Swanson) on April 24, 2010 at WEC 48 losing by an extremely controversial split decision. Many MMA publications and fans (including many in the Sacramento home crowd) opposed the decision, which has led again to questions about the accuracy of the fight judging. However, the bout was awarded the Fight of the Night honors, this was later declared the Fight of the Year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Jung next faced George Roop on September 30, 2010, at WEC 51. He lost the fight via knockout due to a head kick in the second round.

Ultimate Fighting Championship
Jung was expected to face Rani Yahya on January 22, 2011, at UFC Fight Night 23. However, Jung was forced from the card with an injury.

A rematch with Garcia was scheduled for March 26, 2011, at UFC Fight Night 24, after Jung stepped in to replace an injured Nam Phan. Jung was able to avenge the original loss after submitting Garcia with a twister in the final second of the second round. This was the first time in the history of the UFC that a twister submission finished an opponent and the win earned Jung his first Submission of the Night honors. This was later awarded for the Submission of the Year by the World MMA Awards. In his post-fight interview, Jung stated he learned the move by watching Eddie Bravo videos on YouTube.

Jung faced former title challenger Mark Hominick on December 10, 2011, at UFC 140. Jung won the bout via KO at seven seconds of the first round, which tied a UFC record for the fastest knockout at the time. Jung's victory over Mark Hominick earned him Knockout of the Night honors.  The victory also earned Jung much praise in his native South Korea, appearing on news broadcasts on the country's major national television channels (such as KBS).

Jung faced Dustin Poirier on May 15, 2012, at UFC on Fuel TV: Korean Zombie vs. Poirier. Jung defeated Poirier via submission in the fourth round. The performance earned Jung Submission of the Night and both participants Fight of the Night honors. The bout was honored as Fight of the Year and Submission of the Year by several publications at the conclusion of 2012. This fight was the first time that Jung walked out to the incredibly popular and appropriately named song; Zombie by The Cranberries. He would use this for every fight thereafter.

Jung was expected to face Ricardo Lamas on July 6, 2013, at UFC 162. However, on June 14, it was announced that Jung had been pulled from the Lamas bout and would replace an injured Anthony Pettis to face José Aldo for the UFC Featherweight Championship on August 3, 2013, at UFC 163. Aldo defeated Jung via fourth-round TKO, finishing Jung with a flurry of strikes after Jung suffered a dislocated shoulder while throwing an overhand right.

Jung was expected to face Akira Corassani on October 4, 2014, at UFC Fight Night 53. However, Jung pulled out of the bout citing another injury and was replaced by Max Holloway.

Jung announced in mid-October 2014 his intention to begin his stint for mandatory military service in his home country of South Korea. While Jung did not comment about the future upon his completion, his manager indicated that he would return to mixed martial arts at the end of the two years.

In mid 2016, Jung attended Rener Gracie's inaugural Korean Super Seminar in Seoul.

Jung faced Dennis Bermudez on February 4, 2017, at UFC Fight Night 104. He won the fight by knockout in the first round. The win also won Jung his first Performance of the Night bonus award.

Jung was expected to face Ricardo Lamas on July 29, 2017, at UFC 214. However, Jung pulled out of the fight in early June citing a knee injury. He was replaced by Jason Knight.

Jung was expected to face Frankie Edgar on November 10, 2018 at UFC Fight Night 139. However, it was reported on October 26, 2018 that Edgar was pulled from the bout due to injury and he was replaced by Yair Rodríguez. He lost the fight via knockout in the final second of the fifth round. Both participants received Fight of the Night honors.

Jung faced Renato Moicano on June 22, 2019 at UFC Fight Night 154. He won the fight via technical knockout in 58 seconds of the first round.  This fight earned him the Performance of the Night award.

Jung was scheduled to face Brian Ortega on December 21, 2019 at UFC Fight Night 165.  However, Ortega pulled out of the fight in early December citing a knee injury and he was replaced by Frankie Edgar. Jung won the fight via TKO in the first round. The win also earned Jung a Performance of the Night bonus award.

The bout against Brian Ortega was rescheduled on October 18, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 180. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.

Jung faced Dan Ige on June 19, 2021 at UFC on ESPN 25. He won the fight via unanimous decision. Following the fight, Jung was promoted to the rank of black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Jung challenged for the UFC Featherweight Championship for a second time against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 273 on April 9, 2022. After being out struck and knocked down multiple times throughout the fight, Jung lost the fight via TKO early in round four.

For the last time in his MMA career, Jung faced Max Holloway on August 26, 2023 at UFC Fight Night 225. Jung would go on to lose to Holloway via third round KO and subsequently announced his retirement after the fight. This bout earned the fighters a Fight of the Night award.

Championships and accomplishments

Mixed martial arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Submission of the Night (Two times) vs. Leonard Garcia and  Dustin Poirier
Knockout of the Night (One time) vs. Mark Hominick
Fight of the Night (Three times) vs. Dustin Poirier, Yair Rodríguez and Max Holloway
Performance of the Night (Three times)
 Tied (Cub Swanson & Yair Rodriguez) for second most Post-Fight bonuses in the UFC Featherweight division history (9)
Fastest finish in UFC Featherweight division history (0:07 vs Mark Hominick)
Fastest knockout in UFC Featherweight division history (0:07 vs Mark Hominick)
 First fighter in UFC history to finish with a Twister submission.
World Extreme Cagefighting
Fight of the Night (One time) vs. Leonard Garcia
KoreaFC
Korea FC 65 kg Tournament Winner
Pancrase
Pancrase Korea Neo-Blood Lightweight Tournament Winner
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
2010 Fight of the Year vs. Leonard Garcia on April 24
2012 Fight of the Year vs. Dustin Poirier on May 15
World MMA Awards
2011 Submission of the Year vs. Leonard Garcia at UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis
MMAFighting.com
2012 Fight of the Year vs. Dustin Poirier on May 15
ESPN MMA Awards
Fight of the Year (2012) vs. Dustin Poirier on May 15
Bleacher Report
Fight of the Year (2012) vs. Dustin Poirier on May 15
Sherdog
2012 Fight of the Year vs. Dustin Poirier on May 15
2011 All-Violence First Team

Personal life
Jung has two daughters and one son. In 2014 he married his longtime girlfriend Park Sun Young.

Filmography

Television shows

Music video appearances

Mixed martial arts record

|-
|Loss
|align=center|17–8
|Max Holloway
|KO (punch)
|UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|0:23
|Kallang, Singapore
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|17–7
|Alexander Volkanovski
|TKO (punches)
|UFC 273
|
|align=center|4
|align=center|0:45
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|17–6
|Dan Ige
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC on ESPN: The Korean Zombie vs. Ige
|
|align=center|5
|align=center|5:00
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|16–6
|Brian Ortega
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC Fight Night: Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie
|
|align=center|5
|align=center|5:00
|Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|16–5
|Frankie Edgar
|TKO (punches)
|UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:18
|Busan, South Korea
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|-
|Win
|align=center|15–5
|Renato Moicano
|TKO (punches)
|UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. The Korean Zombie
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:58
|Greenville, South Carolina, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|14–5
|Yair Rodríguez
|KO (elbow)
|UFC Fight Night: The Korean Zombie vs. Rodríguez
|
|align=center|5
|align=center|4:59
|Denver, Colorado, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|14–4
|Dennis Bermudez
|KO (punch)
|UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:49
|Houston, Texas, United States
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 13–4
| José Aldo
| TKO (punches)
| UFC 163
|
| align=center| 4
| align=center| 2:00
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 13–3
| Dustin Poirier
| Technical Submission (D'Arce choke)
| UFC on Fuel TV: The Korean Zombie vs. Poirier
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| align=center| 4
| align=center| 1:07
| Fairfax, Virginia, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 12–3
| Mark Hominick
| KO (punches)
| UFC 140
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:07
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 11–3
| Leonard Garcia
| Submission (twister)
| UFC Fight Night: Nogueira vs. Davis
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 4:59
| Seattle, Washington, United States
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 10–3
| George Roop
| KO (head kick)
| WEC 51
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 1:30
| Broomfield, Colorado, United States
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 10–2
| Leonard Garcia
| Decision (split)
| WEC 48
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Sacramento, California, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 10–1
| Matt Jaggers
| Submission (triangle choke)
| World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 1:25
| Saitama, Japan
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 9–1
| Masanori Kanehara
| Decision (unanimous)
| World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 8
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Tokyo, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 9–0
| Shintaro Ishiwatari
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 7
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:29
| Tokyo, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center|8–0
| Fanjin Son
| KO (punch)
| Deep: 39 Impact
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:17
| Okayama, Japan
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 7–0
| Michihiro Omigawa
| Decision (unanimous)
| Deep: Gladiator
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 5:00
| Okayama, Japan
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 6–0
| Jung-Hun Cho
| Decision (unanimous)
| rowspan=3|Korea FC
| rowspan=3|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| rowspan=3|Gangwon, South Korea
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 5–0
| Dae-Han Choi
| Submission (triangle choke)
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:38
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 4–0
| Jung-Beom Choi
| Submission (armbar)
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:15
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 3–0
| Hyung-Geol Lee
| TKO (punches)
| rowspan=2|Pancrase: 2007 Korea Neo-Blood Tournament
| rowspan=2|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:27
| rowspan=2|Busan, South Korea
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|-
| Win
| align=center| 2–0
| In-Seok Yoo
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:34
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 1–0
| Hyung-Geol Lee
| Submission (reverse armbar)
| Super Sambo Festival
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 3:07
| Gyeongju, South Korea
|

Pay-per-view bouts
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!No
!Event
!Fight
!Date
!Venue
!City
!PPV buys
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|1.
|UFC 163
|Aldo vs. Korean Zombie
|August 3, 2013
|HSBC Arena
|Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
|180,000
|-
|2.
|UFC 273
|Volkanovski vs. Korean Zombie
|April 9, 2022
|VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States
|Not Disclosed

Awards and nominations

See also
 List of male mixed martial artists

References

External links

http://koreanzombiemma.com/

1987 births
Living people
Featherweight mixed martial artists
People from Pohang
South Korean male taekwondo practitioners
South Korean hapkido practitioners
South Korean male kickboxers
South Korean male judoka
South Korean practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
South Korean male mixed martial artists
South Korean sambo practitioners
Mixed martial artists utilizing hapkido
Mixed martial artists utilizing taekwondo
Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Welterweight kickboxers
Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters
Mixed martial artists utilizing sambo
Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province


The reduction-oxidation sensitive green fluorescent protein (roGFP) is a green fluorescent protein engineered to be sensitive to changes in the local redox environment. roGFPs are used as redox-sensitive biosensors.

In 2004, researchers in S. James Remington's lab at the University of Oregon constructed the first roGFPs by introducing two cysteines into the beta barrel structure of GFP. The resulting engineered protein could exist in two different oxidation states (reduced dithiol or oxidized disulfide), each with different fluorescent properties.

Originally, members of the Remington lab published six versions of roGFP, termed roGFP1-6 (see more structural details below). Different groups of researchers introduced cysteines at different locations in the GFP molecule, generally finding that cysteines introduced at the amino acid positions 147 and 204 produced the most robust results.

roGFPs are often genetically encoded into cells for in-vivo imaging of redox potential. In cells, roGFPs can generally be modified by redox enzymes such as glutaredoxin or thioredoxin. roGFP2 preferentially interacts with glutaredoxins and therefore reports the cellular glutathione redox potential.

Various attempts have been made to make roGFPs that are more amenable to live-cell imaging. Most notably, substituting three positively-charged amino acids adjacent to the disulfide in roGFP1 drastically improves the response rate of roGFPs to physiologically relevant changes in redox potential. The resulting roGFP variants, named roGFP1-R1 through roGFP1-R14, are much more suitable for live-cell imaging. The roGFP1-R12 variant has been used to monitor redox potential in bacteria and yeast, but also for studies of spatially-organized redox potential in live, multicellular organisms such as the model nematode C. elegans. In addition, roGFPs are used to investigate the topology of ER proteins, or to analyze the ROS production capacity of chemicals.

One notable improvement to roGFPs occurred in 2008, when the specificity of roGFP2 for glutathione was further increased by linking it to the human glutaredoxin 1 (Grx1). By expressing the Grx1-roGFP fusion sensors in the organism of interest and/or targeting the protein to a cellular compartment, it is possible to measure the glutathione redox potential in a specific cellular compartment in real-time and therefore provides major advantages compared to other invasive static methods e.g. HPLC.

Given the variety of roGFPs, some effort has been made to benchmark their performance. For example, members of Javier Apfeld's group published a method in 2020 describing the 'suitable ranges' of different roGFPs, determined by how sensitive each sensor is to experimental noise in different redox conditions.

Species of roGFP

See Kostyulk 2020  for a more comprehensive review of different redox sensors.

See also
Synapto-pHluorin

References

Biochemistry detection methods
Biosensors
Cell imaging
Fluorescent proteins


Xichang Station (), formerly Dongfeng Road West Station () during planning, is a station on Line 5 of the Guangzhou Metro. It is located under the junction of Huanshi Road West () and Dongfeng Road West () in the Liwan District of Guangzhou. Huanshi Road West is the main shopping area for shoes in the city. The station opened on 28December 2009.

References

External links

Railway stations in China opened in 2009
Guangzhou Metro stations in Liwan District


2009 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern Region () is the 3rd Level League in Thailand. In 2009, contains 12 clubs from North Eastern region.

The league winners qualify for the end of season Regional Championships with the other four league winners in the Regional setup.

Ubon United FC withdrew from the league after playing 16 games, due to a dispute with the Thailand Football Association (FAT). All results were declared null and void. Ubon were also given a 2-year ban from competing. The league table was re-adjusted accordingly, after FAT previously thought about awarding 2-0 victories for the remaining games.

Member clubs & locations

 Ubon United FC withdrew on the 16th matchday

Final league table

Results

See also
 2009 Regional League Division 2 Northern Region
 2009 Regional League Division 2 Central & Eastern Region
 2009 Regional League Division 2 Bangkok Metropolitan Region
 2009 Regional League Division 2 Southern Region

References

External links
  Football Association of Thailand

Regional League North-East Division seasons
North


Subrahmanyan Ramassamy (5 June 1939 – 15 May 2017) was an Indian politician who was the fourth Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry, then Pondicherry. He served 3rd Assembly from 6 March 1974 to 28 March 1974 and 4th Assembly from 2 July 1977 to 12 November 1978.

Political career

Ramaswamy started his political career in Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and became the Home Minister of Pondicherry in the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam - Communist Party of India coalition ministry from 1969 to 1973 but soon after shifted his allegiance to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in 1973 a Party founded by M. G. Ramachandran in 1972 as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

In 1974 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam - Communist Party of India coalition came to power, and Ramaswamy was made Chief Minister for a brief period. He was again sworn in as Chief Minister in 1977 that lasted in office for a little over one year. He successfully contested as Independent from Karaikal in 1985. Later, Ramaswamy joined Congress in 1992.

Electoral history
Member of the Legislative Assembly

1939 births
2017 deaths
Chief ministers of Puducherry
Chief ministers from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
Puducherry politicians

Notes


Squash competitions at the 2003 Pan American Games was held from August 10 to August 15 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Men's competition

Singles

Team

Women's competition

Singles

Team

Notes

Medal table

References
 Sports 123
 worldsquash
 squashflash

W
2003
Events at the 2003 Pan American Games


Sir Walter (foaled 1890 in California) was an outstanding American Thoroughbred racehorse known for his gritty determination which saw him win a number of races by a matter of inches.

Background
Sir Walter was bred by James Ben Ali Haggin at his Rancho Del Paso near Sacramento, California who had imported his sire, Midlothian, from Great Britain. His dam was La Scala, a daughter of the important Nevada/California sire, Joe Hooker.

Sir Walter was purchased as a yearling by the Oneck Stable of Harry K. Knapp and his brother, Dr. Gideon Lee Knapp, who raced him throughout his career. He was trained by Walter Rollins, about whom the New York Times would write that he "was for thirty years one of the most successful trainers of thoroughbred racers in America."

The decade of the 1890s was a time in American Thoroughbred racing when the Kentucky Derby had lost much of its earlier importance and was often drawing a field of just three or four horses. Although there were important races in the state of Maryland, it was the New York/New Jersey circuit which attracted the best horses from across the United States and the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps were among the top events of the racing season. There were also a number of significant stakes and handicaps on the New York racing calendar at what are today long defunct racing venues such as Morris Park Racecourse, Sheepshead Bay Race Track and Gravesend Race Track. In addition to his Brooklyn Handicap victory, Sir Walter won numerous important races which are now all but forgotten as a result of those track's closure in the early 1900s. His racing career was such that on his retirement in 1898, the New York Times called Sir Walter a "great race horse."

Racing career
In his first few years of racing, Sir Walter was most often ridden by jockey Samuel Doggett. As a two-year-old, the colt won five of his eight starts and at age three won nine of twenty outings and notably running third in the 1893 Withers Stakes and fourth in the 1893 Realization Stakes. At four, he won thirteen of twenty-two starts and was second in the Manhattan Handicap.  At ages five and six he won just three times but most significantly was ridden to victory by Fred Taral in the 1896 Brooklyn Handicap.

Already having beaten Keene Stables' great Champion, Domino, on October 29, 1897, a seven-year-old Sir Walter beat the four-year-old Hastings in a handicap race at Morris Park Racetrack.

At age eight, Sir Walter returned to racing but was retired in early July 1898. However, before long he returned to the track and won three more races in September and October. His career record stood as follows:

Stud record
In 1899, Sir Walter's owner planned to race him again but he fell ill and in September the decision was made to retire him. He was sent to stand at stud at Hal Price Headley's Beaumont Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. According to Thoroughbred Heritage, he was moderately successful as a stallion.

References

External links
 Sir Walter's pedigree and partial racing stats
 Sir Walter information at Thoroughbred Heritage
 June 5, 1896 New York Times article on Sir Walter's win in the Brooklyn Handicap
  July 3, 1898 New York Times article on the retirement from racing of Sir Walter
 Photo of Sir Walter and jockey Samuel Doggett

1890 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in California
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 4-r


Ludovico Mazzanti (5 December 1686, in Orvieto – 29 August 1775, in Viterbo) was an Italian painter. He was a follower of the school of Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio (died 1709).

Biography
Mazzanti belonged to the Romano-Neapolitan school of artists and carried out his early work in Rome and Orvieto. In Rome he collaborated with Nicolò Pomarancio in the church of Santa Maria Apollinare, while at Orvieto he designed the upper mosaics for the Cathedral façade (1713–1714). He executed many works at Naples, where he was based during the years 1733–1740, and in the Abbey of Montevergine in Campania.

References

External links

Short info at the Città di Castello Cathedral Museum
artnet entry

1686 births
1775 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists


Management due diligence is the process of appraising a company's senior management—evaluating each individual's effectiveness in contributing to the organization's strategic objectives.

Assessing company management is crucial when closing business deals. It can mean the difference between long-term success or sudden failure. It also helps the organisation understand how the teams perform their roles in context with the company's future business plan. This helps clarify the structure of the organisation's work-force.
The management due diligence process can be identified as an informative tool for external stakeholders, and can also be referred to as Management Assessment as it addresses the team’s dynamics and highlight the risks.

Management assessment

Management assessment usually focuses on assessing the leadership skills and characteristics of the organisation's managers—such as the ability to adjust to a changing environment and communicate effectively with other individuals. These characteristics are key points in successful leaders.

A leader must consider all factors concerning a strategic decision, such as possible effects on employees and customers. Engaging employees and customers in the decision process helps build better relationships.

Transactions that require management due diligence
Companies typically apply the due diligence process when they are about to engage in a major transaction with another company—such as selling or purchasing products or services, or buying (merging with or acquiring) the other company. Some transactions require a due diligence report that includes managements. Transactions that might require managerial assessments include:

Mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances
Organizations considering a merger, acquisition or alliance should perform due diligence. This due diligence should investigate the other party's management team. Many mergers and acquisitions fail because of human resources and management-related issues, such as cultural clashes. These incidents occur because of different cultural values or different individual beliefs. To avoid such incidents, and cut costs on the long run, management teams must be assessed thoroughly.

Partnerships
Before organizations signs a partnership contract, they must investigate the other organization’s matters and affiliations, organizational structures, and behaviors. A management due diligence process achieves this.

Joint ventures and collaborations
When forming a relationship with another organizations, management due diligence helps an organization introduce  management structure and the behavior of individuals.

Management due diligence's responsibility
Not only buyers carry out management due diligence, but also sellers of an organization. Usually, the process of selling an organization or adopting any external growth strategies requires the sharing of warranties. These warranties require private information from the organization—possibly including information and activities that they must shield from the view of third parties. In this case, the seller should carry out due diligence to ensure secure data.

Importance
Management due diligence ensures sustainable profit and growth for organisations, as it identifies the human capital components. It ensures that highly skilled people are assigned the correct jobs and responsibilities. It increases the chance of a good return on investment by reducing risk.

Management due diligence identifies strengths and weaknesses of individuals in the management team and assesses their contributions to the organisation. It assesses management team members' abilities to reach common goals.

It identifies undiscovered dangers that eventually affect productivity. These might include unacknowledged motives or personal conflicts between individuals in management. It helps organizations efficiently appraise candidates for a management team position.

Management due diligence gives an organization a basis for expectations for team and individual performance. Accordingly, the organization can determine whether managers need training.

Process
Since management due diligence lies in the financial analysis of a due diligence report, It shares the same process as creating a due diligence report with few variations.

Preparation
Preparation is key to an effective management due diligence process. In this phase, organizations gain sufficient knowledge about other organizations. This helps them decide on communication methods between them and other entities, in addition to putting resources in place to promote a successful process.  After settling those issues, the organization must:

Form a team for the analysis process from skilled people with enough experience. After forming the team, the organization assigns responsibilities and settles on a process timeline. The organization may fill gaps in expertise by hiring or contracting external people.

Involve managers as early as possible as they must get to know the other organization's management team. Early introductions help managers deal with later obstacles.

Create checklists tailored to particular risks associated with the other organization.

Prepare a list of data requests for the information an organization needs to complete the process.  Such data could include the business plan's management team section, or management organizational structure.

After negotiations, have both parties sign a confidentiality report to protect sensitive data from third parties. Agree on a method to store all confidential data—for example, an online data repository that both parties can view.

Execution
In this phase the organization begins analyzing gathered data. The team tries to confirm the target's representations and "soft" aspects of the target, such as its corporate culture. The team must make sure the other organization fits with its own after assessing their management quality. After gathering all the information, the team advises on whether their organization should continue to work with the other organization.

Closure
After the team finishes analyzing the management team, they submit a report to the final decision makers. If the team exposes irregularities or unexpected risks, the organization can bid on contract changes. If everything passes the assessment, team members switch to integration planning.

Aspects
By performing management due diligence to assess the individuals working in an organization, different aspects must be appraised. The diagram outlines the main aspects that must be evaluated. The four circles in the middle represent the basic qualities that are considered essential for an individual assessment. The bigger circle "Role" represents the duties of the individuals in a certain organization. These duties usually vary from one individual to another depending on the job description of that individual. The biggest circle representing the employing organization is located in a market, making it easy to get affected by various external factors. These external factors are capable of hindering the organization from achieving its strategic goals and long-term objectives, making this a challenge that has to be dealt with.

For the individual assessment to be precise and accurate, it must be done after the organization's requirements have been highlighted and responsibilities of each individual are clear. Having such knowledge helps the business organization overcome future challenges and move closer to strategic objectives.

Key points
Management due diligence needs:
Clear, defined objectives—set expectations in terms of management styles and qualities in individuals
 Commitment—assess whether management resources can make the business succeed.
 Assess strengths—recognize strengths of individual members to use them effectively
The management team is an asset to any organisation,

Limitations and drawbacks

To assure reliable data, both investor and individuals under assessment must be involved in the feedback process. This can be costly and time-consuming to both parties. Since due diligence can be a detective game, organizations must find individuals who can detect small issues and opportunities. Organizations sometimes bring in outside experts.

The expense of the due diligence process, and the time involved, can be softened by dividing it into two stages.
Executives may be so interested in a deal that they ignore identified risks and move ahead—and later suffer from management issues.
Information gathering can involve interviewing the management team, but the team may see them as expensive and time-consuming.  People doing the analysis might not be familiar with the organization's sector, which can lead to wrong conclusions.

References

Evaluation
Management


The Zurich Airport Skymetro  is an underground airport people mover at Zurich Airport in Switzerland. The  long system connects the airport's main Airside Center, Gates A, B and D with its mid-field Gates E, passing underneath Runway 10/28. The line opened on 1st September 2003, and was constructed by the Otis Elevator Company.

As of 2010, Skymetro was carrying 6.73 million passengers per year, and is claimed to be the most used cable way in Switzerland.  With a cost of 176 million Swiss francs it is also the most expensive cable car system and one of the most complex with high safety standards.

The tunnels of the Skymetro were equipped with Zoetrope-like films displayed on the sides which ran from 2006 to 2019, with each film consisting of a series of still frames in rapid succession, accompanied by matching sound effects played over the vehicles' public address system. Various films have been shown, including ones based around the fictional character Heidi and the Matterhorn mountain. However, these films are no longer displayed since 2013.  Instead, two new films have been made for the system. The first of the two new films has shown a mid-aged woman (holding a crossbow), and her younger son (holding an apple) appeared from  late 2013 to 2019, while the other replacement film shows a man waving the flag of Switzerland.  However, for the first time since 2005, as of July 2019, the Zoetrope-like films have been removed.

On the 30th of January 2020 they implemented a new voice and film which is shown on 432 vertical pixel rows outside the skymetro. The technology was made by Adtrackmedia.

History
Construction of the Skymetro tunnels started in 2000 and was completed in 2001. The first test run was undertaken in November 2002, and the line became operational in September 2003. As built, the line used three trains, each made up of two cars.

In 2009, the Skymetro was remodeled as part of a construction project known as Zurich 2010, which mainly involved the centralization of Security control. With the trains expanded from two to three cars, passengers are segregated according to whether they have been screened to EU aviation security standards (whether in Zurich Airport or at their departure airport), and transported in separate cars. Glass dividers enforce this segregation at the station platforms. For the expansion Swiss cable car companies were used: the three new chassis derived from Bartholet in Flums, the cabins from Gangloff in Bern, and Altdorfer SISAG company supplied the electrical controls.

When the Skymetro opened, the audio featured a recorded female voice, however, the original voice was retired in 2008 when the current male voice debuted.

Technology
Vehicles on the parallel  long guideways are drawn by steel cables and float on an approximately  thick air cushion generated by on board air compressors, running over a smooth concrete guide way as in other Otis Hovair installations. Service is provided by a total of nine cars, which operate in three trains of three cars each, with each train carrying up to 157 passengers.

Trains can run in a pinched loop configuration, with trains reversing direction at each end onto the opposite track. Alternately a shuttle service can be operated, with a single train shuttling backwards and forwards on one track, or a double-shuttle service with one train on each track. In order to allow this flexibility, the traction cables are arranged into five loops: one in each of the main tunnels driven by 465 kW motors, one in each of the reversing lines driven by 266 kW motors, and one in the maintenance siding driven by a 55 kW motor. The trains can engage with, and switch between cables using hydraulic horizontally movable clamps.

The maximum speed of a Skymetro train is , and the journey time between Airside Centre and Terminal E is 3 minutes.

Locations:
Airside Center:
Dock E:

References

External links

 YouTube Video of the Train #1 (Old Audio)
 YouTube Video of the Train #2 (New Audio W/Heidi 2004–2013)
 YouTube Video of the Train #3 (Audio W/new Heidi 2013–2019)

Airport people mover systems
Hovair people movers
Cable car railways in Switzerland
People mover systems in Switzerland
Railway lines opened in 2003
Funicular railways in Switzerland
Subterranean funiculars


The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl is an annual competitive intercollegiate ethics debate tournament for university students in the United States organized by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). While the term bowl is a reference to American football bowl games, the event itself may have been inspired more directly by the College Bowl quiz show.

The first Ethics Bowl contest was held in 1993 at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Three judges ask each team questions that arise on topics ranging from professional ethics to social and political topics, and team members' responses, to each other as well as to the judges, are then scored by the judges. Since 1997, the national Ethics Bowl Competition has taken place every year at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.

For the past few years ten regional bowls have taken place throughout the U.S. with over 100 teams competing. The top 32 teams are then invited to participate in the national competition. In 2008, a spin-off began, the Bioethics Bowl, which focuses exclusively on ethical issues in health care.

Along with the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl for undergraduates, a number of other ethics bowl competitions are held, including the Bioethics Bowl and one sponsored by the Society for American Archeology. The Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the headquarters for the National High School Ethics Bowl. The National High School Ethics Bowl currently sponsors 36 regional competitions across the United States, excluding two unaffiliated competitions in Canada and England, and the national competition takes place every spring at UNC Chapel Hill. Regional winners participate in a virtual playoff against other high school winners to earn a spot at this national championship.

An international version of the same event has been established using Zoom to bring high school students together called an Ethics Olympiad.

Ethics Bowl format

While the organization of Ethics Bowl tournaments can vary from region to region, single rounds generally follow a given format.  Four to six weeks before the date of the competition, the competing teams, judges, and moderators are given a packet of case studies that present ethical issues to study. The goal for the teams is both to do research on the cases and to formulate well structured, logical answers to questions asked about the cases.

In each round, the first team gets one of twelve to fifteen cases randomly assigned plus a question from the moderator.   The first team then has ten minutes to present the central moral issues of the cases, as well as alternative points of view. The responding team then comments for five minutes on the first team's analysis, and the first team then responds to these comments for five minutes. Finally, a panel of judges asks questions of the first team for ten minutes. The judges then pause to evaluate the first teams' response and the second team's comments. The round then repeats this format with the second team receiving a question about a different case.

In the national competition of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, during the first evening, each team competes in two rounds against different teams. Two more rounds commence the next morning, and then the top eight teams continue on to the last rounds, all of which are single-elimination: quarter finals, semi finals, and lastly, the final round where the two remaining teams compete to determine the winner.

History

The Ethics Bowl was developed in 1993 by Dr. Robert Ladenson of the Illinois Institute of Technology. An intramural Ethics Bowl was held at IIT for two years, and in 1995 a small local competition was held where teams from DePaul University, Loyola University, and Western Michigan University were invited to compete against the winning IIT from that year's competition. In 1996, the same four schools participated in the local competition, along with a team from the United States Air Force Academy.

The first nationwide Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl was held in 1997 in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Since that time, the Ethics Bowl has taken place at the APPE annual meeting every year.  The University of Montana won the National Championship in 1997. The United States Military Academy competed in and won the National Championship in 1998 and 1999.  In 2006, due to the number of teams wishing to participate in the Ethics Bowl, regional competitions were held at locations throughout the U.S., and the top-scoring 32 teams were invited to participate in the national competition held in February, 2007.

History of competitions
 In 2002, Wright State University won the national championship.
 In 2006, in Jacksonville, Florida, the United States Military Academy won the national championship.
 In 2007, the University of Miami beat Westminster College to win the national championship.
 In 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, Clemson University beat Westminster College in the final round to be national champion.
 In 2009, Indiana University beat Clemson University for the national title.
 In 2010, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) beat Weber State University to win the national championship.
 In 2011, the University of Central Florida beat Montana State to claim the national championship.
 In 2012, Whitworth University beat Clemson University in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2013, in San Antonio, Texas, DePauw University beat Taylor University in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2014, in Jacksonville, Florida, the University of Montana beat the University of Oklahoma in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2015, in Costa Mesa, California, Taylor University beat Whitworth University in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2016, Whitworth University beat Youngstown State University in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2017, the United States Military Academy beat Youngstown State in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2018, Santa Clara University beat the University of Oklahoma in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2019, Whitworth University beat the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2020, Youngstown State University beat Tufts University in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2021, the University of Cincinnati beat Whitworth University in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2022, Macalester College beat the University of Chicago in the final match for the national championship.
 In 2023, the United States Naval Academy beat Tufts University in the final match for the national championship.

References

External links

 Official website

Debating competitions
Philosophical debates
Philosophy events


The Second Unitarian Church is a historic church and synagogue building at 11 Charles Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.  Built in 1916 for a Unitarian congregation, it was acquired by the innovative Reform Jewish Temple Sinai congregation in 1944.  It is a high quality example of Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Description and history
The Temple Sinai building is located on the north side of Charles Street, a side street just south of Beacon Street on the west side of Coolidge Corner.  The building's lot originally fronted on Beacon Street, but has been subdivided.  The building is a two-story brick structure, with a front-facing gable roof, Greek temple portico, and tower with octagonal cupola.  The building corners have brick quoining, and it has round-arch windows capped by limestone keystones.

The building was erected in 1916 by the Second Unitarian Church, a congregation established in 1896 that had been meeting at a shared chapel in the Longwood area.  The building was designed by Boston architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr., and is based on the Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia.  In 1944 the building was purchased by Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish congregation established in 1939.  That congregation was the first new Reform congregation to be founded in the Greater Boston area in 84 years, and is credited with introducing a number of changes to the worship and governance practices of Reform congregations, including equal seating for all congregants, and the right of women to vote in its organization.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

External links
Temple Sinai website

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Unitarian Universalist churches in Massachusetts
Churches completed in 1916
20th-century Unitarian Universalist church buildings
Churches in Brookline, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts


The Eliphalet Spurr House is a historic house located at 103 Walnut Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.

Description and history
The -story wood-frame house was built in 1798 by Eliphalet Spurr, who was locally prominent as one of the first operators of a local coach service, providing transport to Boston (which then required a roundabout trip via Roxbury and the Boston Neck). It is the oldest building in the Pill Hill, and one of the town's few 18th century Georgian houses.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Houses completed in 1798
Georgian architecture in Massachusetts
Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


The James H. Standish House is a historic house located at 54 Francis Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Built c. 1874–75, the -story house and carriage barn are rare surviving examples in Brookline of elaborate Stick style. It has Italianate massing and facade organization, as well as other typically Italianate elements such as a cupola and a bracketed and dentiled cornice. However, it also has applied Stick-style decoration above and below some of its windows.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1874
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


Bromatometry is a titration process in which the bromination of a chemical indicator is observed.

Potassium bromate alone can be used for the analysis of organoarsenicals.

Notes

See also
 Iodometry

Chemical tests
Titration
Bromine


Xerocomellus porosporus is a small wild mushroom in the family Boletaceae. These mushrooms  have tubes and pores instead of gills beneath their caps. It is commonly known as the sepia bolete.

Taxonomy
This bolete was described and given the scientific name Xerocomus porosporus in 1958 by Louis Imler (1900 - 1993), who was the founder of the Antwerp Mycological Circle. The currently accepted scientific name Xerocomellus porosporus dates from a 2008 publication by Czech mycologist Josef Å utara, whose studied in detail morphological character of this and other closely related boletes – since further supported by DNA studies.

Description
When fully expanded, the caps are up to  in diameter, and are soon cracked or fissured. Varying in colour from putty beige to dull brown, or olivaceous.
The stem is usually with very little red, and is olivaceous, more yellow at the apex, and bruises brown. The flesh is pale lemon yellow or buff in the cap, and chrome yellow in the stem apex. It darkens to dark brick or vinaceous towards the base. The tubes are  long, initially lemon yellow, later olivaceous, and they bruise bluish. The pores are narrow, 0.2–0.5 mm in diameter, angular, lemon yellow, and darken later. They also bruise blue. The spores give an olive-brown spore print. At microscopic level this bolete has truncate (chopped off) spores; the spore dimensions are 13–15 by 4–5 µm.

Distribution and habitat
Xerocomellus porosporus appears occasionally in the autumn, and grows singly or in small groups in mixed deciduous woods, particularly with oak, hornbeams, and beech. This species is widespread in northern temperate zones, but somewhat rare in Europe.

Edibility
Xerocomellus porosporus is edible but of little culinary value, being bland, and mushy when cooked.

See also
 List of Boletus species

References

External links
 Index Fungorum - Names Record
 Mycobank - Simple name search Search for Xerocomellus porosporus

Fungi of Europe
Fungi of North America
Boletaceae
Fungi described in 1958


Days Have Gone By is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1967. The cover labels the album Volume 6 while it was preceded in 1966 by The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party which is labeled Guitar Vol. 4.

History
Days Have Gone By continues Fahey's interest in soundscapes, sound effects and experimental music—begun on The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions—mixed in with the more traditional guitar playing of his earlier musical style. This is especially present on the two-part piece, "A Raga Called Pat".

"The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California," was covered by Cul de Sac on their album ECIM.

Reception
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Music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. of AllMusic praised the album, noting the album "expands American blues traditions by enriching the palette of the guitar with Eastern tunings. He may create a challenging work like "A Raga Called Pat--Part Two" that is difficult to interpret, but its opulence is undeniable. Fahey has often been grouped with new age music but this—especially with his early work—is somewhat of a misnomer. New age strives to build harmony; Fahey revels in conflict. Days Have Gone By is another rewarding reissue of the master's classic '60s work and will be eagerly greeted by guitar aficionados."

From his review for All About Jazz, critic Derek Taylor called it "... an album very much in the experimental vein that he first started tapping in the early 1960s... Fahey's influence remains indelibly etched in the psyches of those who have followed him, regardless of whether or not the corporate music culture chooses to recognize it. The self-styled grandfather of “American Primitive” guitar may be gone, but with documents like this one within ready reach his memory and music will endure for years and years to come."

In late 2007, The Guardian included the album on their list of "1000 albums to hear before you die", writing: "Fahey makes innovative use of splicing and sampling. Locomotive sounds blend with his acoustic guitar to create a sparse, meditative atmosphere. A wide-open, pan-American travelogue."

ReissuesDays Have Gone By'' was reissued on CD in 2001 by Takoma Records.

Track listing
All songs credited to John Fahey unless otherwise noted.
 "The Revolt of the Dyke Brigade" – 2:40
 "Impressions of Susan" – 5:08
 "Joe Kirby Blues" – 3:12
 "Night Train of Valhalla" – 2:17
 "The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California" – 4:26
 "A Raga Called Pat, Pt. 1" – 6:25
 "A Raga Called Pat, Pt. 2" – 8:13
 "My Shepherd Will Supply My Needs" – 8:52
 "My Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work, Traditional) – 1:31
 "Days Have Gone By" – 2:54
 "We Would Be Building" (Jean Sibelius) – 1:57

Personnel
John Fahey – guitar
Robert Gardner – guitar (on "My Grandfather's Clock")

References

External links
Original album notes.
The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California

1967 albums
John Fahey (musician) albums
Takoma Records albums
Albums produced by John Fahey (musician)


The Strathmore Road Historic District is a residential historic district on Strathmore Road and Clinton Path in Brookline, Massachusetts.  It consists of six brick apartment blocks, four of which lie on Strathmore Road, and two of which lie on Clinton Path.  The two streets form a loop just south of the westernmost portion (in Brookline) of Beacon Street,  and abutting the MBTA Green Line yard at Cleveland Circle.  The district is reflective of the area's growth as a commuter suburb following the development of the rail line along Beacon Street (now the MBTA Green Line "C" branch), and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Beacon Street and the rail line were extended to Cleveland Circle in the 1880s, and the area was soon developed to provide housing for commuters into Boston.  Charles Newhall and George Johnston were two major developers whose projects line Beacon Street, and who were responsible for the development of Strathmore Road as well.  This development took place between 1904 and 1908.  The buildings are 3-1/2 story brick buildings, most designed by either James Hutchinson or Murdock Boyle.  Five of the six buildings were built by Johnston; only 1 Clinton Path was built by Newhall.  They are built with consistent setbacks, large enough to provide each building with a small front yard, and with sufficient space to allow for the planting of trees.

The basic styling of most of the buildings is either Federal or Classical Revival.  Typical features include limestone wedges above the windows, and cornices with dentil molding and modillions.  Two of the buildings (40 Strathmore and 1 Clinton) are Romanesque in style, using rusticated brownstone and with round-arched entries.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Historic districts in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Neoclassical architecture in Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts


Christopher Garnett may refer to:
Christopher Garnett, member of the Board of the Olympic Delivery Authority
Christopher Garnett (politician), British politician
Chris Garnett, youth worker for PETA


Matt Bryans (born 1977) is an artist based in London. Bryans has exhibited at Tate Modern in the exhibition Untitled (2005), with Amie Dicke, Godfried Donkor, Dr Lakra, Wangechi Mutu, Jockum Nordström, Stephen Shearer and Nicole Wermers. He erases colour photographs from magazines, leaving behind smudged and smeared newsprint. Such collections of masked news stories covered the walls of galleries in immersive installations.

Examples of Bryans work have been acquired by several important public art collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Tate Modern, London.

Exhibitions

2008 Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London
2007 Matt Bryans, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2006 Matt Bryans, Atlanta Center of Contemporary Art, USA
2006 Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London
2005 Picture This!, MMD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2005 Matt Bryans, Salon 94, New York
2005 Matt Bryans - Landscapes, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2003 Matt Bryans, Kate MacGarry, London

References

British installation artists
1977 births
Living people


Petr Trapp (born 6 December 1985) is a Czech football player who most recently played for 1. FK Příbram. He made his international début for the Czech Republic against Peru in June 2011.

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Czech men's footballers
Czech Republic men's under-21 international footballers
Czech Republic men's international footballers
Czech First League players
Super League Greece players
SK Slavia Prague players
FK Chmel Blšany players
FC Viktoria Plzeň players
FK Příbram players
Veria F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Salam Zgharta FC players
Expatriate men's footballers in Lebanon
Flamurtari FC players
Expatriate men's footballers in Albania
FC Nitra players
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
Sportspeople from Most (city)
Footballers from the Ústí nad Labem Region
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football defenders
Czech expatriate men's footballers
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Lebanon
Lebanese Premier League players
FK Baník Most 1909 players


The Winand Toussaint House is a historic house at 203 Aspinwall Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Description and history
The -story wood-frame house was built in 1881 by Winand Toussaint, a Belgian immigrant who worked in the furniture business, and may have been the designer of the house. It is an architecturally eclectic work, with elements of Second Empire (the mansard roof), Stick style, and Gothic Revival. The house has a cupola, and perhaps most distinctively, the house's corners are chamfered, with the main entrance at one of the angled ends.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
Second Empire architecture in Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1881
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
1881 establishments in Massachusetts


Sherwood is an indie rock band from San Luis Obispo, California, specializing in upbeat pop rock. Members of the band cite The Beatles and The Beach Boys as some of their main influences. The band broke up in 2012 after ten years together. On September 28, 2015, the band announced via their Facebook page that they would be starting an Indiegogo account in order to crowdfund their fourth album, Some Things Never Leave You, which was released on June 17, 2016.

History
The band began in late 2002 while several of its founding members were attending Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. The band first formed with Nate Henry on vocals and bass, Dan Koch on drums, and Chris Armstrong on guitar. The name Sherwood comes from an inside band joke about creating a concept album that synced with the 1973 Disney Robin Hood cartoon in the same way that Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is said to sync with The Wizard of Oz. In April 2003, the lineup was changed with the addition of drummer Joe Greenetz. Koch became the band's second guitarist and principal songwriter. October of the same year saw the addition of keyboardist Chris Keene. Mike Leibovich joined to play keyboards months later after Keene left Sherwood to play for Number One Gun. After years of touring with a "Do-it-yourself" attitude, the band chose to sign with Militia Group side-label Sidecho Records, who would release their debut LP. Entitled Sing, But Keep Going and produced at Sonikwire Studios in Irvine, CA by Michael Rosas (singer/guitarist for the band Satisfaction), it sold over 20,000 copies and helped stir up even more attention for the group.
In 2005 it was announced that founding guitarist Chris Armstrong was leaving the band. His role was filled on tour first by (former Terminal, now Oh, Sleeper bassist) Lucas Starr and later by their friend Gabe Dutton from Michigan in the summer of '06 and finally by David Provenzano (formerly of the band Fighting Jacks) in February 2007.

As Sing, But Keep Going continued to gain traction, the band began receiving interest from other labels as they went on to play the Vans Warped Tour and sold-out shows across the country. Pushing the envelope even further was AbsolutePunk.net, who released a free downloadable EP in early 2006 that has since been downloaded some 30,000 times. After holding out for the best possible deal, the band surprised its fans and announced that they had signed to the newly formed MySpace Records.  Following another summer stint on the Warped Tour, Sherwood spent six weeks in a beach house near Ensenada, Mexico writing for their next LP. The songs written during this time, along with the material they'd released on the Summer EP, were compiled to form a new full-length album, later entitled A Different Light, which was recorded in December 2006 at Motor Studios in San Francisco with producer Lou Giordano and features his daughter Joanna as a violinist in "I'm Asking Her to Stay".

A Different Light was released in March 2007, in the middle of the band's nationwide tour supporting Relient K and Mae.  Sherwood spent the rest of the year supporting several other bands they had met on the Warped Tour including Motion City Soundtrack and The Academy Is..., and ended 2007's unrelenting schedule with a tour in England alongside Hellogoodbye and Say Anything.

Sherwood spent 2008 continuing their support of A Different Light with two more European tours, a trip to Japan, and several headlining U.S. tours.  In August the band moved to Oakland, CA to begin writing material for their third full-length album, which would be produced by Brad Wood in Los Angeles.

On July 14, 2009, Sherwood announced that their upcoming album would be titled QU and released on October 13. They also posted three new songs from the album to their myspace page.

Also in 2009, Sherwood's song "The Best In Me" was used as the theme to the new MTV show College Life.

Despite rumors of a breakup, in 2010 Sherwood announced at a show that the band would continue on and to expect a new album in the summer of 2012. Soon after, however, the band announced their official break up. On the band's Facebook, they said that they preferred to dedicate the rest of their lives to their families.

On the morning of September 28, 2015, the band announced via their Facebook page that they would be starting an Indiegogo account in order to crowdfund their fourth studio album. Only three of the former five band members were originally featured in the promotional material but a picture was later posted on their Facebook page which featured all five members and followed news of a full band West Coast tour alongside Mike and David's other band Fialta. The band's projection to raise $20,000 was reached in just five days and just under $40,000 in total was raised by the time the campaign ended. The album, Some Things Never Leave You was released on June 17, 2016, kicking off the band's limited reunion tour that year. A 10-year anniversary tour for A Different Light was later scheduled for the fall of 2017.

Members

Current
Nate Henry – Lead vocals, bass guitar
Joe Greenetz – Drums/backing vocals
Dan Koch – Lead Guitar, Background vocals

Former members
Chris Armstrong – guitar
Chris Keene – keyboards
Gabe Dutton – guitar
Billy Dunaway – bass guitar
Mike Leibovich - keyboard/backing vocals
David Provenzano - guitar/backing vocals

Crew members
Josh Jeter – Miscellaneous, Legal Counsel
Luke Holton – Sound Engineer, Tour Manager
Jon Havens – Lights, Merch
Sarah Shotwell – Guitar Tech, Merch, Literary Advisor

Former crew members

Ciara Carlson – Merch Mistress
Shane Haase  – FOH Sound Engineer and Merch
Will Kent  – Lighting Designer and Visual Director
Sean Porterhouse  – Guitar Tech, Tour Manager
Joshua Monaghan  – Guitar Tech

Musical style
The band focuses on creating rock and roll music that can be danced to—upbeat, with nonaggressive passion and a strong nod to classic rock stylings. While the band's original sound has been admitted to be "The Get Up Kids meets Mineral meets Further Seems Forever," the band's detailed list of influences for their current sound is a blend of old-fashioned rock and progressive alternative, with strong ties to standards set by the Beach Boys.

Other projects
I'll Beat You Up
In the summer of 2005, guitarist Dan Koch and then-guitarist Chris Armstrong released a free online EP under the pseudonym "I'll Beat You Up" through a Myspace page. This farcical project consisted of "screamo" covers of children's melodies, such as the Itsy-Bitsy Spider and selections from Schoolhouse Rock. While it appears to have been a one-time deal, the EP remains available for download on the Myspace page.
We Shot The Moon
A band from San Diego, California featuring Jonathan Jones, the singer of Waking Ashland, in addition to Dan Koch and Joe Greenetz, both from Sherwood.
The Sherwood Show
On November 7, 2007 Sherwood released their first pilot episode of their new online show starring Nate Henry, Dan Koch, Joe Greenetz, Mike Leibovich, and Dave Provenzano. The pilot episode can be found on their MySpace blog. They announced that they would be airing a new episode every Wednesday. According to the pilot episode lead singer and bassist Nate Henry started the series.

Discography

Albums
2005: Sing, but Keep Going
2007: A Different Light U.S. Heatseekers No. 11, U.S. Independent Albums No. 30
2009: QU U.S. Billboard 200 debuted at No. 91, U.S. Independent Albums No. 9
2016: Some Things Never Leave You

EPs
2002: A Long Story Short EP
2003: These Ruins EP
2004: Sherwood EP
2006: Summer EP
2009: Not Gonna Love EP

References

External links

Sites
Official Website
Official Purevolume site
AbsolutePunk Profile
Upcoming Tour Dates
Zannel Sherwood Interview
Live Video of "Song In My Head"  – by Punkvideosrock

Interviews
'More Important Than Music' interview with Dan Koch
Euphonia Online interview
Zannel Online interview

Indie rock musical groups from California
Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups disestablished in 2012
Musical groups reestablished in 2015
Pop punk groups from California
2002 establishments in California


The Town Stable is a historic municipal public works building at 235 Cypress Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.  With its oldest portion dating to 1874, it is one of the town's oldest municipal buildings.  The building constructed then was designed with Gothic Revival styling by Charles Kirby, and was designed to stable 20 horses.  The building was enlarged in 1898 to a design by Peabody & Stearns, adding more stable space along Cypress Street, and converting the original building into carriage storage and maintenance.  The addition has a mansard roof and Georgian Revival detailing.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Gothic Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Government buildings completed in 1874
Buildings and structures in Brookline, Massachusetts
Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Stables in the United States
Peabody and Stearns buildings


James Whitley (born 14 April 1975) is a football coach and former professional footballer who is under-18s manager of Macclesfield.

As a player he was a midfielder who notably played in the Premier League for Manchester City, and in the Football League for Blackpool, Norwich City, Swindon Town, Northampton Town and Wrexham. Born in Zambia, he represented the Northern Ireland and was capped three times.

Early life
Born in Ndola, Zambia to a Zambian mother and Northern Irish father, Whitley originally wished to become a golfer. At the age of 11 he moved to Wrexham where he attended Ysgol Bryn Alyn. While at the school he became friends with future Wales international Robbie Savage who helped encourage his interest in football. At the age of 15, Whitley signed for Manchester City and, after completing his GCSEs in Wales, he attended Loreto college in Manchester to take A-levels in art and sports studies.

Club career
Whitley began his career at Manchester City, signing his first professional contract at the age of 18 in 1993. He made his debut for the first team on 3 January 1998 in a 2–0 win over Bradford City in the FA Cup at the age of 22. His first league appearance came the following week in a 3–0 win against Portsmouth and he went on to make 21 appearances in all competitions before being voted the clubs young player of the year. He remained a regular in the side until January 1999 when he fell out of favour, appearing just once in the final four months of the season.

At the start of the 1999–2000 season, Whitley joined Blackpool on loan to play first team football, playing 8 times for the side before returning to Manchester City where his only appearance during the remainder of the season came in a 1–1 draw with Huddersfield Town on 18 February 2000. The match would later turn out to be his final appearance for Manchester City and, after spending the whole 2000–01 season away from the club with loan spells at Norwich City, Swindon Town and Northampton Town, he joined Wrexham on a free transfer.

He became a first team regular at the Welsh side, but suffered a serious knee injury in February 2005 which kept him out for nine months. Whitley returned to the side to make 10 appearances during the 2005–06 season, but the knee injury quickly resurfaced and at the end of the season Wrexham decided not to offer Whitley an extension to his contract after undergoing three knee operations and making just 24 appearances in his final two years at the side.

International career
Along with his brother Jeff, Whitley chose to represent Northern Ireland, qualifying through his father. He made his debut on 3 June 1998 in a 4–1 defeat against Spain and went on to win his second cap three months later in a 3–0 defeat to Turkey. Whitley made his third and final appearance for Northern Ireland two years later as a substitute in a 4–1 loss to Finland.

Coaching career
In October 2022, Whitley was appointed manager of the under-18s team of Macclesfield whose Director of Football was childhood friend Robbie Savage.

Personal life
His brother Jeff is also a former professional footballer, the pair played together at Manchester City.

Following his retirement, Whitley began performing as a singer and dancer in stage shows, appearing in productions called Christmas Crooners and The Rat Pack's Back, taking the roles of Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis, Jr. in the respective shows.

Whitley also paints portraits and, in 2005, a number of his paintings were exhibited during an art show held at Maine Road, the former home stadium of Manchester City.

References

External links

Jim Whitley at ex-canaries.co.uk

1975 births
Living people
People from Ndola
Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland men's international footballers
Zambian men's footballers
People from Northern Ireland of Zambian descent
Zambian people of Northern Ireland descent
Manchester City F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
English Football League players
Zambian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Men's association football midfielders


A national Commission on Money and Credit (CMC) was established November 21, 1957, by Donald K. David, Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) to make the first extensive investigation of the U.S. monetary system since the Aldrich Commission of 1908–1911. The report of the commission was published in June 1961 and it was subsequently disbanded.

Goals and structure

The commission was planned to make the first extensive investigation of the U.S. monetary system since the Aldrich Commission of 1908–1911.  The Commission on Money and Credit would evaluate whether the existing structure of the U.S. financial system and the regulations on various financial institutions were adequate to cope with the anticipated future needs of the U.S. economy.

The Commission on Money and Credit was intended to consist of nine to eighteen members drawn from “business, labor, agriculture, and education, and from fields of research and administration”.  Ten prominent individuals in academia, social science research, and economics, would advise Mr. David on the selection of the members of the commission.

Hyman Philip Minsky

Hyman P. Minsky, Associate Professor of Economics, The University of California, Berkeley, consulted with the commission, for which he co-authored Private Capital Markets; A Series Of Research Studies Prepared For The Commission On Money And Credit in 1964.

President John F. Kennedy's Remarks

President John F. Kennedy made the following remarks upon receiving the report of The Commission on Money and Credit, in a speech on June 19, 1961, from the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.:

Footnotes

References
 Karl Brunner, “The Report of the Commission on Money and Credit”, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 69, No. 6, Dec. 1961, pp. 605–620.
 The Commission on Money and Credit.  A Progress Report.  February 1960.  New York, NY, 1960.
 The Commission on Money and Credit.  Money and Credit: Their Influence on Jobs, Prices, and Growth.  The Report of The Commission on Money and Credit.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1961.
 Review of Report of The Commission on Money and Credit.  Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session.  Aug. 11-18, 1961.  Washington, DC: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1961.
 William G. Dewald, “Commission on Money and Credit Research Studies: A Review Article”, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 73, No. 1, Feb. 1965, pp. 83–93.  (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1828433.pdf)  (Professor Hyman P. Minsky is cited on page 93.)
 Frank Popper.  The President’s Commissions.  New York, NY: Twentieth Century Fund, 1970.
 Karl Schriftgiesser.  Notes on the Origin and Establishment of the Commission on Money and Credit.  Unpublished manuscript.

Economy of the United States
United States national commissions
United States economic policy
Financial regulation in the United States
United States federal boards, commissions, and committees
1957 establishments in the United States


The William F. Tuckerman House is a historic house located at 63 Harvard Avenue in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Description and history
The -story wood-frame house was built in 1856, and is a well-preserved local example of high-style Italianate design. It has a low-pitch gable roof, with dentil moulding in the gable eave, and a round-arch window near the apex of the gable. The roof cornice has paired brackets, and the front porch, which extends across the three-bay front of the main block, is supported by square posts with brackets.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1856
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts


The Ginery Twichell House is a historic house located at 17 Kent Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Description and history
The (two and half) story wood-frame house was built in the year 1844–1855 by Ginery Twichell, a leading Massachusetts politician, as well as a nationally prominent stagecoach and railroad owner. Twichell lived at 40 Kent Street. The house is a well-preserved example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate styling. Its massing and roofline are typically Greek Revival, but its gable ends and eaves have doubled brackets, and its windows are capped by scrollwork decoration.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Greek Revival architecture in Massachusetts


The New World of English Words, or, a General Dictionary is an English dictionary compiled by Edward Phillips and first published in London in 1658. It was the first folio English dictionary.

Contents
As well as containing common words, the dictionary featured many unusual words, foreign terms, proper nouns and other specialist terms. In total, the original edition featured 11,000 entries, increasing to 17,000 by the fifth edition in 1696.

It was later revised and enlarged by John Kersey in 1706, eventually containing 38,000 entries. Kersey had already compiled his own dictionary, A New English Dictionary, in 1702, and used this revised edition of The New World of English Words as the basis for his more concise Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum in 1708.

Plagiarism
At least half of the entries were copied directly, without permission, from Thomas Blount's Glossographia, which had been published a couple of years before. Blount responded by publishing A world of errors discovered in the Interpreter of Hard Words, written against Sir Edward Phillips book entitled A New World in 1673.

Full title
"The New World of English words:
Or, A General Dictionary:
Containing the Interpretations of such hard words as are derived from other Languages; whether Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, British, Dutch, Saxon, &c. their Etymologies, and perfect Definitions:
Together with
all those Terms that relate to the Arts and Sciences; whether Theologie, [...], Fishing, &c.
To which are added
the significations of Proper Names, Mythology, and Poetical Fictions, Historical Relations, Geographical Descriptions of most Countries and Cities of the World; especially of these three Nations wherein their chiefest Antiquities, Battles, and other Most Memorable Passages are mentioned; as also all other Subjects that are useful, and appertain to our English Language.
A Work very necessary for Strangers, as well as our own Countrymen, for all Persons that would rightly understand what they discourse, write, or read."

References

Bibliography
Barber, Charles Laurence, Early Modern English (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997). .
Drake, Miriam A., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (2003). .
Hüllen, Werner, A History of Roget's Thesaurus: Origins, Development and Design (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). .
Jackson, Howard, Lexicography: An Introduction (2002). .

External links
 The New World of English Words (1720) public domain – Google Books

English dictionaries
1658 books


The Redwood Act (also Redwood amendment) is a 1978 amendment to the US National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970.  The amendment is particularly notable for clarifying and supplementing the 1970 act and the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916 with the following two important sentences as the second and third to the General Authorities Act:

Congress declares that the national park system, which began with establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, has since grown to include superlative natural, historic, and recreation areas in every major region of the United States, its territories and island possessions; that these areas, though distinct in character, are united through their inter-related purposes and resources into one national park system as cumulative expressions of a single national heritage; that, individually and collectively, these areas derive increased national dignity and recognition of their superlative environmental quality through their inclusion jointly with each other in one national park system preserved and managed for the benefit and inspiration of all the people of the United States; and that it is the purpose of this Act to include all such areas in the System and to clarify the authorities applicable to the system. Congress further reaffirms, declares, and directs that the promotion and regulation of the various areas of the National Park System, as defined in section 1c of this title, shall be consistent with and founded in the purpose established by section 1 of this title [the Organic Act provision quoted above], to the common benefit of all the people of the United States. The authorization of activities shall be construed and the protection, management, and administration of these areas shall be conducted in light of the high public value and integrity of the National Park System and shall not be exercised in derogation of the values and purposes for which these various areas have been established, except as may have been or shall be directly and specifically provided by Congress.

By this amendment the United States Congress reiterated the provisions of the Organic Act, and made equal all areas of the National Park System no matter the designation.  This provides equal protection to all areas of the National Park System from impairment and/or derogation of their resources.

References

See also
National Park Service

1978 in American law
National Park Service
United States federal public land legislation


E74 may refer to:
 European route E74
 King's Indian Defence, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code
 Hiroshima Expressway and Hamada Expressway, route E74 in Japan

See also

Xbox 360 technical problems#E74 error


is a lighthouse located on a hill at the outermost extremity of Cape Irōzaki south of the town of Minamiizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan on the southernmost extremity of Izu Peninsula. It is located within the borders of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.

History
Although not one of the eight lighthouses stipulated specifically by the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858, the Irōzaki Lighthouse was one of the earliest of the 26 lighthouses to be built in Meiji period Japan by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton, and was the tenth western style lighthouse to be completed in Japan. Its construction was given priority by the Meiji government due to the frequency of marine accidents off the Izu Peninsula. The original structure as designed by Brunton was octagonal, and was constructed of wood.

Work began in July 1871. The Irōzaki lighthouse was completed on October 5, 1871. This structure was destroyed during a wind storm on November 14, 1932, and was replaced with the current reinforced concrete structure on March 31, 1933. Its lens was upgraded and structure repaired in 1993.

The Irōzaki Lighthouse is listed as one of the “50 Lighthouses of Japan” by the Japan Lighthouse Association. It is operated by the Japan Coast Guard.

See also

 List of lighthouses in Japan

Notes

References
Brunton, Richard. Building Japan, 1868–1879. Japan Library, 1991.
Pedlar, Neil. The Imported Pioneers: Westerners who Helped Build Modern Japan. Routledge, 1990.

External links

 Lighthouses in Japan
Minamiizu official home page
Japan Coast Guard official home page

Lighthouses completed in 1871
Buildings and structures in Shizuoka Prefecture
Lighthouses in Japan
Minamiizu, Shizuoka


Requia (subtitled and other compositions for guitar solo) is the eighth album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey. Released in November 1967, it was the first of Fahey's two releases on the Vanguard label. It originally received hostile reviews from music critics, particularly for its musique concrète experimentation. It has since been recognised as precursor to new-age music, and has been re-released multiple times, including by Terra in 1985, Vanguard in 1997 and 1998 and Ace in 1998.

History
After six releases on his own label Takoma Records and one on Riverboat Records, Fahey signed a two-album contract with Vanguard Records, best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s. His manager at the time, Denny Bruce, recalled that "His deal was that he could record for Takoma 'experimental records,' but to try and make commercial recordings for Vanguard, with their approval of the budget."

After beginning with three solo guitar pieces, the four-part "Requiem for Molly" begins with solo guitar interspersed and accompanied by white noise, excerpts of both string and brass orchestras, Adolf Hitler speeches, choral music, scratchy 78-rpm recordings and various other tape loops and sound effects. The melody found in Part 3 is "California Dreaming", a recent Top 40 hit for The Mamas & the Papas. A short hymn-like song, "Fight On Christians, Fight On", based on "Christians, Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long" by Bo Weavil Jackson, played on bottleneck guitar concludes the recording.

Fahey stated "["Requiem for Molly, Pt. 1–4"] was my first attempt at musique concrète, but it's not very good and I don't really like that one. It was a good learning experience though."

"Requiem for John Hurt" refers to influential country blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt. Fahey recalled "He was in his quiet way, a very great man, and I deeply mourn our loss of him. So, I wrote this requiem for him, about him, but I play it the way Charley Patton would have played it, had he ever thought of such a thing, which of course he never would have."

In his original liner notes, Fahey wrote "Since 1948, after seeing the movie, The Thief of Bagdad, I composed cerebral symphonies every day. It was a pleasant pastime. But suddenly in 1953 I needed a full orchestra at my command—me playing every instrument in that impossible ensemble." He labeled the first two songs and "Requiem for Molly" as Requia and "When the Catfish Is in Bloom" and "Fight on Christians, Fight On" as Cantica.

Reception

According to Edward Pouncey of The Wire, contempoary reception to Requia was mixed and often hostile, with many puzzled by the album's lengthy musique concrète centrepiece.

In his AllMusic review, critic Brian Olewnick describes the distinct differences in the two parts of Requia, calling the four solo pieces "a series of blues-based pieces in line with music he had previously recorded" and the second section ("Requiem for Molly") as sounding "a bit dated, largely because his source material... sounds heavy-handed and trite in retrospect." Olewnick summarizes the release writing "Requia doesn't rank up with the absolute best of his releases, but contains enough fine and interesting work to recommend it to Fahey fans."

In his book Beautiful Monsters, author Michael Long referred to Fahey as a pioneer and wrote "His personal aesthetic was easily translatable to the revisionist morbid aesthetic, most notably with respect to Requia, a collection containing the four-part "Requiem for Molly," Fahey's spatiotextural experiment in sampling, looping, and musique concrète." Kris Needs of Record Collector has similarly cited "Requiem for Molly" as a "deranged mosaic of effects" that predated sampling with its mixture of musical interpolations and "snatches of jazz and blues singers, Nazi marching songs, wedding music, hymns, brass bands and fairground organ, as well as self-recorded seals."

In a review of The Essential John Fahey in the July 3, 1974 Milwaukee Journal, Pierre-Rene Noth referred to "Requiem for Molly" as "[Fahey's] worst.. a horrid mix." In his piece for The New York Times, Ben Ratliff called Requia "dense with eccentricity." The album received new attention when re-released in 1985 by Terra Records, a pastoral folk jazz subsidiary label of Vanguard, as part of a series of releases exploring the roots of new-age music. Reviewing the reissue for the Reno Gazette-Journal, Paul Raeburn described Requia as a precursor to new-age, calling the mixture of folk and blues "as fresh and evocative" as the genre. However, he preferred the short tracks on side one to "Requiem for Molly", whose "ominous" sound effects he found distracting. A reviewer for Daily News said that the album would impress those who dismiss new-age music as "Muzak for the '80s", describing Fahey as "quirky and quiet" but engaging.

In 2017, Uncut ranked Requia at number 89 in their list of "The 101 Weirdest Albums of All Time"; contributor John Robinson wrote that Fahey's "singular oddness" derived in part from his humour, and commented that the album blends his distinctive meditative guitar soli with tape collage experimentation via "Requieum for Molly", in which Fahey's guitar is "mixed deep into a shifting music concrete soundworld of sucking reverb, white noise and – just in time for the summer of love – Adolf Hitler." In 2022, Uncut ranked the album at number 396 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of the 1960s".

Reissues
Requia was reissued on CD in 1997 by Vanguard.
All the songs, minus the four-part "Requiem for Molly" are included in the Vanguard CD reissue of The Essential John Fahey.
Requia was reissued on CD in 1998 in the United Kingdom by Ace Records.
All the songs, minus the parts 1 and 2 of "Requiem for Molly" are included in the Vanguard release The Best of the Vanguard Years.
Requia was reissued on a vinyl LP in 2007 by Vanguard.

Track listing
All songs by John Fahey.
 "Requiem for John Hurt" – 5:10
 "Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper" – 8:56
 "When the Catfish Is in Bloom" – 7:42
 "Requiem for Molly, Pt. 1" – 7:40
 "Requiem for Molly, Pt. 2" – 7:46
 "Requiem for Molly, Pt. 3" – 2:33
 "Requiem for Molly, Pt. 4" – 3:00
 "Fight On Christians, Fight On" – 1:57

Personnel
John Fahey – guitar
Special effects by John Fahey, Sam Charters and Barry Hansen
Cover photo by Marvin Lyons

See also
Requiem
Steve Tibbetts

References

External links
Original album liner notes.

1967 albums
John Fahey (musician) albums
Vanguard Records albums
Musique concrète albums
Folk jazz albums
New-age albums by American artists