title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: Lucy Sistare Say was an apprentice at Fretageot's Pestalozzian school and a former student of Lesueur in Philadelphia before coming to New Harmony aboard the "Philanthropist" to teach needlework and drawing. En route to Indiana, Sistare met Thomas Say and the two were married on January 4, 1827, prior to their arrival at New Harmony. An accomplished artist, Say illustrated and hand-colored 66 of the 68 illustrations in "American Conchology," her husband's multi-volume work on mollusks. Following Thomas Say's death in 1834, she moved to New York, trained to become an engraver, and worked to complete and publish the final volume of "American Conchology". Lucy Say remained interested in the natural sciences after returning to the East. In 1841 she became the first female member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: German-American folk artist Jacob Maentel (c. 1763–1863) lived in New Harmony from 1836 until his death. During this time he prolifically painted portraiture in the "fraktur" style and portrayed the dress and décor of local Owenites. Examples of his work are displayed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: Publications on the history of New Harmony include the work of the New Harmony historian and resident, Josephine Mirabella Elliott.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: William Owen (1802–1842), Robert Owen's second oldest son, was involved in New Harmony's business and community affairs. He was among the leaders who founded New Harmony's Thespian Society and acted in some of the group's performances. Owen also helped establish the Posey County Agricultural Society and, in 1834, became director of the State Bank of Indiana, Evansville Branch. He died in New Harmony in 1842.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: More than 30 structures from the Harmonist and Owenite utopian communities remain as part of the New Harmony Historic District, which is a National Historic Landmark. In addition, architect Richard Meier designed New Harmony's Atheneum, which serves as the Visitors Center for Historic New Harmony, and depicts the history of the community. Also listed on the National Register of Historic Places


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: are the George Bentel House, Ludwig Epple House, Harmony Way Bridge, Mattias Scholle House, and Amon Clarence Thomas House.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: New Harmony is located at (38.128583, −87.934122). The Wabash River forms the western boundary of New Harmony. It is the westernmost settlement in Indiana.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: According to the 2010 census, New Harmony has a total area of , of which (or 98.46%) is land and (or 1.54%) is water.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, New Harmony has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: As of the census of 2010, there were 789 people, 370 households, and 194 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 464 dwelling units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 99.0% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.1% Asian, and 0.6% from two or more races.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: There were 370 households, of which 17.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.7% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 47.6% were non-families. 43.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 23.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.93 and the average family size was 2.62.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: The median age in the town was 55.1 years. 13.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.3% were from 25 to 44; 30.4% were from 45 to 64; and 33.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 43.2% male and 56.8% female.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: As of the 2000 census, there were 916 people, 382 households, and 228 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 432 dwelling units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 98.91% White, 0.55% Native American, 0.22% Asian, and 0.33% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.44% of the population.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: There were 382 households, out of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.9% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.1% were non-families. 38.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.12 and the average family size was 2.80.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: In the town, the population was spread out, with 20.3% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 21.2% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 29.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 71.4 males.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: The median income for a household in the town was $28,182, and the median income for a family was $40,865. Males had a median income of $39,250 versus $21,607 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,349. About 12.2% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.8% of those under age 18 and 17.1% of those age 65 or over.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: Paul Tillich Park commemorates the renowned twentieth century theologian, Paul Johannes Tillich. The park was dedicated on 2 June 1963, and Tillich's ashes were interred there in 1965.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: Located just across North Main Street from the Roofless Church, the park consists of a stand of evergreens on elevated ground surrounding a walkway. Along the walkway there are several large stones on which are inscribed quotations from Tillich's writings. James Rosati's sculpture of Tillich's head rises at the north end of the walkway, backed by a clearing and a large pond.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: Those who walk the Tillich Park Finger Labyrinth , which was created by Reverend Bill Ressl after an inspirational walk through the park, are also invited to ponder the quotations and discern Tillich's systematic theology.


title: New Harmony, Indiana

text: For over 200 years, New Harmony was served by New Harmony School, a K–12 school. In 2012, due to low enrollment and funding cuts, the school consolidated with the MSD of North Posey County which operates four schools:


title: B'z

text: In 2003 HMV Japan ranked them at number 30 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. In 2007, B'z became the first music act from Asia to have their handprints and signatures put up in the Hollywood's RockWalk. In 2008 were awarded a "Guinness World Record" for "Best selling album act in Japan", which also notes them to be the best selling act in Japan overall.


title: B'z

text: In the late 1980s, Tak Matsumoto had been extremely busy as a guitarist with various recording sessions and live performances, including for Tetsuya Komuro's TM Network and Mari Hamada. On 21 May 1988, Matsumoto released his first solo album, "Thousand Wave", with positive critical reception. However, wanting to start a band he searched for band members, particularly a singer. Eventually, through his management he listened to the demo tape of vocalist Koshi Inaba in 1988, who would later form B'z with him. At the first session they played The Beatles "Let It Be" and "Oh! Darling". At the time, Japan's music scene was experiencing a band boom. With all the digital sounds in mainstream music, the only sounds that Inaba and Matsumoto felt could not be expressed and replicated were the guitar and the human voice. As a result, they decided to keep it a two-man unit. On 21 September 1988, B'z made their debut with their first album, "B'z", and single, "Dakara Sono Te o Hanashite". Their music was very much a product of its times, with synthesizers and samplers sharing equal time with Matsumoto's guitar, producing an experimental sound, very different from their later well-known hard rock sound.


title: B'z

text: Instead of immediately performing live after a debut album, as many Japanese bands were doing, B'z had a clear vision of how they wanted to perform and decided to wait until they had enough material to play live. The two concentrated on recording, improving the quality of their music. Their efforts resulted in a second album, "Off the Lock", released on 21 May 1989. With this second album came their first series of live performances, known better to their fans as "Live-Gym". "Live-Gym No. 00" started in Nagoya, continued in Osaka, and finished in Tokyo. Tickets were sold out on the day they became available. On 21 October, their first mini-album (EP), "Bad Communication" was released. The title track was a blend of rock and dance music, and is still a classic played during their "Live-Gyms". It charted for 163 weeks on the Oricon Charts. Their first nationwide tour, "B'z Live-Gym No. 001", covered 16 shows around Japan.


title: B'z

text: On 21 February 1990, their third album "Break Through" was released. It charted at No. 3 on the Oricon Albums Chart. To promote it, they started a tour with 22 shows nationwide. Their single "Taiyō no Komachi Angel", was released on 13 June and peaked at No. 1 on the Oricon Singles Chart. Every single since that release has debuted at No. 1 on the Oricon charts. The following "Wicked Beat", their second mini album, was released on 21 June. It also reached No. 3 on the charts. Like the band's other releases, it became commercially successful (reaching one million certifications) retroactively between 1990 and 1991. Their fourth album, "Risky", was released on 7 November, and was their first album to top the charts. It was the beginning of a steady shift in the duo's style from pop rock to 80's hard rock. Their "Risky" tour, with 49 performances, also started in November. Their first music video, "Film Risky", was recorded in New York City and London in four weeks, and was released on 16 December. With a barrage of releases, 1990 came to be the busiest year for B'z.


title: B'z

text: The third mini album, "Mars" was released on 29 May 1991. Little promotion was done for it and after releasing only two singles, B'z released their fifth album, "In the Life", on 27 November. The release of the album marked B'z shying away from their advanced digital sounds and more towards rock. Their first live video, "Just Another Life" was out on 11 December. For promotion, B'z also embarked on their "In the Life '91–'92" tour, with 66 performances in total. The tour started in December and managed to flow into the next year. The total number of "Live-Gyms" they did during this year exceeded 100.


title: B'z

text: In the summer of 1992, the "Pleasure '92-Time" tour took place with 12 performances in 3 major cities. The arena-class tour had amazing features such as a huge lighting set, called the "Starfish", and seats that rotated 360 degrees. 28 October marked the release of their sixth album, "Run", and proved to be even more hard rock oriented than the previous. On 9 December, they released a slightly different mini album "Friends". Different from "Run", its concept is somewhat similar to that of a movie soundtrack.


title: B'z

text: In early 1993, the Run tour concluded after 49 performances in 21 locations. In March was released their twelfth and best-selling single "Ai no mama ni Wagamama ni Boku wa Kimi dake o Kizutsukenai", certified double-million by RIAJ in 2003. Then they held an open-air concert for the first time, called "Jap the Ripper". The show took place in Bentenjima of Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka on 31 July and 1 August. The successful event gathered fifty thousand people per day, totaling 100,000 people in the end. Following this, B'z concentrated on recording once again, this time, producing a two-disc seventh album, "The 7th Blues". The album title not only came from it being their seventh album, but also after the seventh chord, that is frequently used in blues. Becoming much more "bluesier" and soulful, this album evidently shows their lean towards blues, the roots of rock music. It included hit singles "Don't Leave Me" and "Lady Navigation".


title: B'z

text: On 9 February 1994, the "B'z Live-Gym '94—The 9th Blues" tour started. The tour became their longest and biggest tour thus far, managing 87 performances in the year. During the tour, the album, "The 7th Blues", was released on 2 March. The tour finished in Sapporo's Tsukisamu Green Dome on 24 December. This album was a kind of "fans trap" because they made it to "clean" their fandom and just keep the rock and blues-loving people with them.


title: B'z

text: In the first half of 1995, B'z spent their time recording and after creating numerous demos, they held the "Pleasure '95 Buzz Stadium" tour with 12 shows in 7 cities. Their eighth album, "Loose", was released on 22 November. "Loose" was concentrated on the original concept of a two-man band. While combining rock with pop, this album is well balanced with a variety of sounds. The album sold over 3 million copies, marking it as the best seller for B'z at the time. The B'z Live-Gym '96 "Spirit Loose" tour, started on 15 March 1996 and held 44 performances in 21 locations. The show opened featuring a short B'z action movie, shot in Los Angeles. A short while afterward, B'z released their 6th mini-album titled "Friends II" on 25 November. The album displayed more of an adult-oriented rock.


title: B'z

text: During a short hiatus, in 1997 Inaba's released debut solo album, "Magma", writing all the music and lyrics. The album, which topped the Oricon charts, showcased another side of him, different from that of his usual image in B'z. In March, the dome tour "Pleasure '97 Fireball" consisted of 9 performances in 5 locations. Tickets for each dome, which have a capacity of about 30 to 50 thousand people each, were all sold out. The tour included stops at Tokyo (3 nights), Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Maebashi, all being successful. On 19 November, their ninth studio album "Survive" showcased yet another new direction in sound and style. B'z's first promotional effort for the album included performances in concert halls in Akita, Hakodate, Kōchi, Shiga, and Nagasaki, before plunging into the main tour. "B'z Live-Gym '98 Survive" started on 24 January 1998. On 20 May, B'z released their first official compilation album, "B'z The Best "Pleasure"", which also marked their 10th year since debuting. Every song included in this album was a huge hit and was highly acclaimed as it was the first Japanese album to sell more than 5 million copies, which achieved by the end of the year. On 6 June, the "Survive" tour had successfully ended. In the mid-1998, B'z entered a period of both rest and recording. During the period, on 20 September, their second best-of album, "B'z The Best "Treasure"" was released, selling almost 4.5 million copies until the end of the year.


title: B'z

text: B'z started off the year of 1999 by busily promoting their recent singles and their tenth studio album "Brotherhood", which was released on 14 July. It is considered their heaviest rock album at that point. The album's track "Giri Giri Chop (Version 51)" was recorded by the support of Mr. Big drummer Pat Torpey and its bassist Billy Sheehan. In July, another dome-class tour began starting in Sapporo. The title of the tour, "B'z Live-Gym '99 "Brotherhood"" included 14 performances in 7 locations. They did away with extra stage acts and concentrated on their musical performance, playing songs from the new album and many hits from the past. On 28 August and 29, they played in the Yokohama International Stadium. B'z concert was the first to be held in this stadium and gathered a stunning 140,000 people in just two days. Although the second day at Yokohama experienced heavy rain, the tour ended successfully. Shortly afterward, B'z started recording again and continued to do so throughout the rest of the year without rest.


title: B'z

text: On 23 February 2000, they released the album "B'z The "Mixture"", which included re-mastered tracks of past songs, songs from past singles that were not the featured track, remixes, and a new song. In the middle of May, they started a rehearsal for the summer tour "B'z Live-Gym Pleasure 2000 -Juice-", starting a hall class venue show in Toyama, 30 May. The tour totaled 18 shows in 10 cities, including a performance on the famous Nippon Budokan on 20 June as a start. The recording of their single "Juice" was supported by drummer Brian Tichy. When they released "Juice", on 12 July, the duo set a Japanese record of marking No.1 in the first week, making it their 25th No. 1 single in sequence. During the tour, "Once Upon a Time in Yokohama ~B'z Live Gym'99 "Brotherhood"~" was released. The year of 2000 was finished with the release of the eleventh album "Eleven" on 6 December. B'z finished their work in 2000 with the appearance on the TV show Music Station Special and would start the rehearsal for the tour "B'z Live-Gym 2001 -Eleven-" which kicked off on 26 February, in the following year.


title: B'z

text: On 26 February 2001, "B'z Live-Gym 2001 -Eleven-" kicked off at Ehime Kenmin Bunka Kaikan. Most of the shows were exclusive to fan club members. In March was released popular thirty-first single "Ultra Soul". After the Okinawa shows on 27 and 28 June, B'z traveled abroad. They officially released their CDs in Taiwan and Hong Kong and after having Live-Gym that year, they made a promotion trip for the first time there. "B'z Live-Gym 2001 -Eleven-" had 46 shows in 19 locations and 600,000 attendees. After the Eleven tour, B'z prepared for their first Asian tour, which included "B'z Live-Gym in Taipei 2001" and "B'z Live-Gym in Hong Kong 2001".


title: B'z

text: While B'z started recording as soon as the year 2002 started, Tak finished his solo albums. which were released simultaneously: "Dragon From The West" which consists of hard rock tunes, and "Hana", which includes more melodic and Asian-influenced tunes. B'z finished their recording in the middle of May, and started rehearsal in Tokyo for the Live-Gym tour that year, as well as performing with Aerosmith on the stage of FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan Official Concert International Day, at Tokyo Stadium on 27 June. On 3 July, "Green" was released, and there was a supporting tour. The tour began in Saitama Super Arena on 8 July and ended at Osaka Dome on 9 September, encompassing 700,000 attendees, 14 shows, and 11 cities. The live band was rounded out by bassist Billy Sheehan and Canadian drummer Shane Gaalaas. In September, after the last show at Osaka, B'z had their first US tour starting in San Diego at Canes on 22 September and The Palace in Los Angeles on 24 September. On 27 November, a live video "A Beautiful Reel" was released in addition to "B'z Live-Gym 2002 Green ~Go★Fight★Win~", which packaged everything that happened on the Green tour. It also contained a second disc with material from "Live-Gym 2002 Rock n' California Roll". On 11 December, their first ballad compilation album "The Ballads ~Love & B'z~" was released, with a similar flow as "Friends".


title: B'z

text: The year 2003 marked their 15th anniversary, and the two started recording from the beginning of the year, traveling to the United States in February for additional recording. Along with continuous releases, the tour "B'z Live-Gym The Final Pleasure "It's Showtime!!"" started in July. The tour "Pleasure" series started since '91 would end this year. The tour kicked off 3 July at Hakodate Shimin Kaikan and finished at Nagisa-en on 21 September, which was ironically the day of their debut, having a total of 23 shows altogether. As it has been 10 years since B'z had performed at Nagisa-en since their 1993 performance of "B'z Live-Gym Pleasure '93 "Jap the Ripper"", it gathered 100,000 audiences for two days. Even though the shows were hit by typhoon and it rained very hard, it managed to still attract thousands of audience.


title: B'z

text: After the Nagisa-en performance, B'z flew to the U.S. The tour "B'z Live-Gym 2003 Banzai in North America" concluded with 7 shows including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver. Their thirteenth album, "Big Machine", was released on 17 September. As they flew back to Japan, B'z started their third tour in 2003, "B'z Live-Gym 2003 Big Machine". It was a dome tour in 6 locations, from Saitama Super Arena to Tokyo Dome in December. The compilation cover album "The Hit Parade" with various vocalist was released on 26 November.


title: B'z

text: Kicking off 2004, B'z went back to the studio to begin recording again. On 25 February, a DVD, "Typhoon No.15 ~B'z Live-Gym The Final Pleasure "It's Showtime!!" in Nagisaen~", was released. For the rest of the year, they worked mainly on their solo projects. Soon after finishing each solo tour, they began recording together again. On 6 April 2005, B'z released their fourteenth album "The Circle". For the album's recording, the duo was particularly worried about its live sound. For promotional activities, B'z started the tour "B'z Live-Gym 2005 "Circle of Rock"" that ran from April to September, totaling 27 shows in 41 locations. On 1 August, their box set "The Complete B'z" was digitally released only for the Japanese iTunes Store. House of Strings label, which Tak established a year before, released the artist's second album, "Theatre of Strings", on 19 October. On 30 November, "B'z The Best "Pleasure II"", the third compilation album, was released, reaching one million by the end of 2005. On 28 June 2006, their fifteenth original full album "Monster" was released. Most of the recording took place in Los Angeles. B'z kicked off the tour "B'z Live-Gym 2006 "Monster's Garage"" from Amami Bunka Center on 2 July, having 17 shows in all, including 5 big domes in 11 locations and 450,000 audience members altogether. By the end of 2007, more precisely on 5 December, B’z released their sixteenth album, "Action". The drum parts of their two singles from "Action", "Eien no Tsubasa" and "Super Love Song", were recorded by drummers Josh Freese and Jeremy Colson respectively.


title: B'z

text: On 19 November 2007, B'z was inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk as the first Asian inductee in Sunset Boulevard, California, United States. They were recommended by Steve Vai with whom they collaborated in 1999 (on "The Ultra Zone"), as well supported him during the 2007 tour in Japan.


title: B'z

text: In February 2008, B'z released a DVD titled "B'z Live in Nanba". The show was recorded in 2006 and was also broadcast online. The concert featured songs from "The Circle" and "Monster" eras, along with a number of older hits as well as several English versions. On April 16, 2008, the band released their forty-fifth single, "Burn -Fumetsu no Face-", which became their forty-first consecutive No. 1 single. The year also marked the twentieth anniversary of the band. To commemorate the occasion, the "B'z 20" campaign was launched that saw two further compilation albums; "B'z The Best "Ultra Pleasure"" was released on 18 June 2008 and featured the greatest of the band's hits on a two-disc collection, and in chronological order, with two all-new modern recordings of older tracks, while "B'z The Best "Ultra Treasure"" was released on 17 September 2008, which two-disc track listing was decided by fans who were invited to vote for three of many songs at the B'z 20th-anniversary website, which featured an exclusive song on a three-disc gift bundle, as well as a re-recording and a remix.


title: B'z

text: On January 25, 2008, B'z performed only the latest of its "Showcase" series, which are generally small-venue performances of older album songs and the more obscure B-side that are mostly unsuitable for the larger arena concerts. Following this, B'z immediately embarked on their eight-month "Action" tour that saw them perform all over Japan. Afterward, they segued into their 2008 Pleasure tour, titled "Glory Days". Throughout the month of September, B'z performed for hundreds of thousands of fans in nine performances across three cities. The special tour ended on September 21 at Nissan Stadium, with a concert on the 20th anniversary of their first release. This performance was later released on DVD February 25, 2009, as "B'z Live-Gym Pleasure 2008 -Glory Days-".


title: B'z

text: Following their massive tour in 2008, B'z returned to the studio to record new material. Their first release of the year was a Double A-side single, "Ichibu to Zenbu/Dive", released on August 5, 2009 that features drummer Chad Smith. The non full-track ringtone downloads ("Chaku Uta") of "Ichibu to Zenbu" began on July 13, 2009, and the full-track ringtone downloads ("Chaku Uta Full") of the song also began on August 26, 2009. For its strong download sales in August and September on Recochoku, the song served the "Monthly Recochoku Award, Best Song Award Grand Prix" for "Chaku Uta" and "Chaku Uta Full" each for two consecutive months. On October 13, 2009, KDDI also announced that "Ichibu to Zenbu" was awarded the "Utatomo Award" of September 2009 for the sales on "Utatomo" via au's LISMO. The second release was the single "My Lonely Town", with the physical CD of the single was released on October 14, 2009. Both singles are featured in the band's next studio album, entitled "Magic", released on November 18, 2009. On December 10, 2009, it was announced that their single "Ichibu to Zenbu/Dive" won the "Hot 100 of the Year" award at the Billboard Japan Music Awards.


title: B'z

text: After the "B'z Live-Gym 2010 "Ain't No Magic" Tour", they began their solo activities each and did not release any single as a duo in 2010. Matsumoto released the album "Take Your Pick" with Larry Carlton on June 2, 2010. Inaba's solo studio album "Hadou" was also released on August 18, 2010, debuting at number one on the Oricon album charts. "Take Your Pick" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011.


title: B'z

text: In 2011, they came back as B'z with the forty-eighth single "Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo", which is written and used as a commercial song for Pepsi NEX. They have released their eighteenth studio album "C'mon" on July 27, 2011, which featured forty-ninth single "Don't Wanna Lie". "Don't Wanna Lie" is the theme song used for "". In summer 2011, B'z continued their live-gym tour with additional stops in North America: Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Their fourth North American tour has been confirmed for San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Silver Spring, New York City, and Los Angeles in 2012, almost selling out the Universal Amphitheatre. B'z shared their first English language songs with American audiences on their North American tour. Matsumoto explained, "This will be our fourth U.S. tour. We love playing for American audiences, and are excited to share our first English-language release with our fans". In anticipation of their upcoming American tour, the band released a five-song mini-album, titled "", featuring five re-recorded English versions of various hits such as "Juice", "Ultra Soul" and "Splash", and "Into Free-Dangan-" released as a digital single. The songs were co-selected by their drummer Shane Gaalaas. The album is available internationally through the iTunes Store and was released on July 25, 2012. In the same year was released their fifth single "Go for It, Baby (Kioku no Sanmyaku)".


title: B'z

text: In 2013, the group was the third artist by total sales revenue in Japan with ¥5.379 billion. In 2015, was released the nineteenth studio album "Epic Day", as well singles "Uchōten" and "Red". In August 2017, the band released "B'z Complete Single Box Set", and although being a high-priced limited edition it managed to chart in the Top 10. B'z released their 53rd single "Seimei/Still Alive" in June, and it is their 49th single to top the Oricon charts. Their 20th studio album, "Dinosaur", was released in November 2017, followed by a tour to celebrate their upcoming 30th anniversary in 2018. According to Oricon, it is their 28 album to top the music charts. To commemorate the 30th anniversary, in 2018 was held a large exhibition between April and June at Yūrakuchō Infos building in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward, its music documentary "B'z 30th Year Exhibition "Scenes" 1988-2018" screened in theatres nationwide, 20 studio albums mastered for release as LPs, and was released commemorative book "B'z The Chronicle". In July, was released home video "B'z Live-Gym 2017-2018 "Live Dinosaur"" which topped both DVD and Blue-ray charts, selling over 90 thousand copies in the first week. Their new track "Tsuwamono, Hashiru" was used for TV commercial of 2019 Rugby World Cup which will be held in Japan.


title: B'z

text: On April 10, 2019, the band announced their long-awaited follow-up to "Dinosaur," "New Love." The album was released on May 29, 2019 and features new backing band members who made their debut on that year's Whole Lotta New Love tour, as well as a guest appearance by Aerosmith's Joe Perry.


title: B'z

text: During the 2020 pandemic, B'z made their entire Live Gym catalog available to watch on YouTube for free, including their most recent one, "Whole Lotta New Love."


title: B'z

text: B'z covered "Sexual Violet No. 1" by Masahiro Kuwana for 2021's "Take Me to Kazemachi!", a tribute album to the song's lyricist Takashi Matsumoto.


title: B'z

text: In May of 2021, the majority of the B'z catalog was made available on online music services such as Spotify and Apple Music worldwide, including for the first time, in the United States. Previously, only the band's 2007 and 2012 self-titled EPs were available on Apple Music in the US, but currently only the latter is available.


title: B'z

text: The band's music is composed by guitarist Tak Matsumoto, while the lyrics are written by vocalist Koshi Inaba. The band experimented with its style, "going from dance-rock to hard rock to blues to J-pop and back" according to AllMusic. It has also been described as an "ultra-commercial blend of hard rock, blues, and synthesizer pop". Despite frequent changes in musical style during the first 13 years, they didn't lose any support. In the review of their best-selling album "B'z The Best "Ultra Pleasure"", Adam Greenberg of AllMusic notes that they "had some criticism as being more of a pop band with a rock tinge than a full-fledged rock band", but throughout their career they show strong rock elements including "'80s-styled extended electric guitar solo" and "blues-based rock" with various Western rock influences combined with their distinctive style. Compared to other two big Japanese rock bands, Mr. Children and Glay, while the sound of the first can be described as "soft", the other two are "fast and rocking". On "Magic" (2009), for example, they have combined "happy-go-lucky moods and hard rock aesthetics", but instead to sound like Western glam metal it's more similar to Japanese visual kei sound, indicating their influence on that movement and bands like L'Arc-en-Ciel as well. Greenberg in the review of "Ichibu to Zenbu/Dive", argued that most of their work has a "somewhat disjointed structure", "creative vocal descents and cascades", and "riff-heavy guitars". Marty Friedman compared them to Aerosmith, but stated to prefer more B'z because of Inaba's type of voice and high vocal technique, and Matsumoto's personality while playing the guitar solo. Matsumoto's guitar skills have been praised to suits the "top guitar master in Asia", with "fretboard histrionics" and "great sense of riff".


title: B'z

text: It is considered that Matsumoto's guitar style has been influenced by the hard rock sound of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, while Inaba who was interested in rock music since elementary school also listened to Queen, Loudness, Aerosmith and others.


title: B'z

text: In 2003, HMV Japan ranked the band at number 30 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. In 2007, B'z became the first music act from Asia to have their handprints and signatures put up in the Hollywood's RockWalk. By AllMusic are considered as the "biggest rock act in Japan and the entirety of Asia", while the popular music historian Norman Abjorensen described them as one of the most notable J-pop music acts who achieved Asian and global fame.


title: B'z

text: Matsumoto through his B'z fame is also credited for "resurrection and reinvention of the Japanese guitar hero", alongside and in comparison to X Japan's guitarist Hide for a model of guitarist more interested in technique, technology and equipment, popularising the electric guitar as a mass media product in Japan. He also has Gibson signature models.


title: B'z

text: In the Oricon's yearly poll of 20,000 people for "Favorite Artist Ranking" which has started since 2004 they were regularly placed among the most popular music artists, in recent years ranked as 4th (2015, 2016, 2017). In 2015 survey by Oricon about the favorite song to relief stress their song "Ultra Soul" was ranked as second.


title: B'z

text: In 2015 were reported certified sales of 35,809,000 single copies, for which held the first place until December 2015. In 2017 were reported certified sales of 46,576,000 album copies, for which still hold the first place, and with joint sales of more than 82 million certified records are ranked as the best selling music act in Japan. In 2008, for their 20th anniversary were awarded a "Guinness World Record" for "Best selling album act in Japan", which also notes them to be the best selling act in Japan overall.


title: B'z

text: Their albums have 25 Platinum and 31 Million physical certifications, singles have 9 Gold, 33 Platinum, and 20 Million physical certifications, while home videos have 11 Gold physical certifications by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. The compilation album "B'z The Best "Pleasure"" (1998) was the first Japanese album to sell more than 5 million copies, which has achieved by the end of 1998, however it was surpassed by Hikaru Utada's "First Love" in 1999.


title: B'z

text: Other sales records held by B'z in May 2018 include "the most number one singles (49), most consecutive number one singles (49), longest streak of number one singles (49), total weeks singles were at number one (66), longest consecutive period with a single at number one (20 Years), most singles in the top 10 concurrently (9), the most million-selling albums (19), most number-one albums (26), and the only artist in history to lead all six major categories tracked by Oricon" among others, including total CD shipment of over 100 million copies and other about home videos. During the week of 12 April 2003, they held eleven positions in the top twelve on the Oricon Singles Chart, except the second position.


title: B'z

text: In 1999, at World Music Awards won the award for "World's Best Selling Japanese Artist of the Year". At the WMA they received several nominations, including "World's Best Live Act" and "World's Best Group" in 2013.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon was a discovery and advertisement engine (a form of web search engine) that pushed web content recommendations to its users. Its features allowed users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing, social-networking and advertising (sponsored pages) principles. The service shut down in June 2018.


title: StumbleUpon

text: Toolbar versions existed for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Safari. StumbleUpon also worked with some independent Mozilla-based browsers.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon was founded in November 2001 by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance and Eric Boyd during Camp's time in graduate school at the University of Calgary. The idea of creating a company was established before the content: of the five or six ideas for products, StumbleUpon was chosen. Camp describes in a BBC interview the moment for him in which he felt the company had really taken off: "When we passed the half a million mark (in registered users), it seemed more real."


title: StumbleUpon

text: The popularity of the software attracted Silicon Valley investor Brad O'Neill to take notice of the company and assist with a move to San Francisco, as well as bringing in subsequent fund-raising totaling $1.2 million from other angel investors including Tim Ferriss, Ram Shriram (Google), Mitch Kapor (Mozilla Foundation), First Round Capital and Ron Conway. Ferriss, Camp and Geoff Smith all lived in San Francisco, where StumbleUpon was headquartered.


title: StumbleUpon

text: There were 9,238 total unique visits to social sharing sites from August 1, 2011, to January 30, 2013, among which 3,565 (38%) were via social referral, including 2,290 (64% of total social referral) from StumbleUpon, 365 (10% of total social referral) from Facebook, and 36 (1% of total social referral) from Twitter.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon was owned by eBay from May 2007, when it was acquired for $75 million, until April 2009, when Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and other investors including Ram Shriram bought it back.


title: StumbleUpon

text: In September 2012, StumbleUpon released an update for its iOS app that brought the new feature "StumbleDNA," which aggregates content that was recommended for the user, trending content as well as a section where the user could view the activity of their StumbleUpon connections.


title: StumbleUpon

text: On September 25, 2012, StumbleUpon released a redesign of its website in beta, and extended it to all users on October 24.


title: StumbleUpon

text: On January 16, 2013, StumbleUpon confirmed it had laid off 30% of their staff from 110 to 75 employees.


title: StumbleUpon

text: In August 2015, StumbleUpon was in financial debt and was re-acquired by Garrett Camp, who re-gained a majority share of the company.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon was shut down in June 2018 and its accounts were transitioned to Mix.com, another content discovery venture built in part through Camp's studio startup company, Expa.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon used collaborative filtering (an automated process combining human opinions with machine learning of personal preference) to create virtual communities of like-minded Web surfers. Ratings of websites updated a personal profile (a blog-style record of rated sites) and generated peer networks of web surfers linked by common interest. These social networks coordinated the distribution of web content, so that users could "stumble upon" pages explicitly recommended by friends and peers. Giving a site a thumbs up resulted in the site being placed under the user's "favorites". Furthermore, users had the ability to stumble their personal interests like "History" or "Games".


title: StumbleUpon

text: Users rated a site by giving it a thumbs up, thumbs down selection on the StumbleUpon toolbar, and could optionally leave additional commentary on the site's review page, which also appeared on the user's blog. Content that was "stumbled upon" was informed by users' stated preferences, the thumbs up and down of their friends, and demographic information, among other factors the company did not fully disclose.


title: StumbleUpon

text: In the settings section of StumbleUpon, users could further filter the types of webpages. There were interest filters which allowed users to include only content suitable for all ages, R-rated content, or X-rated content. Users could also choose to allow stumbles with audio, video, flash and images.


title: StumbleUpon

text: On October 24, 2011, StumbleUpon deleted years' worth of user-generated content, and removed HTML blogging, standalone blog posts, and photoblogging capabilities. Additionally, all previous blog posts were converted from HTML to plain text, and all photos were deleted from previous blog posts. StumbleUpon stated, "Over time, we’ve come to realize that we are not able to support and scale a blogging platform, in addition to our recommendation engine."


title: StumbleUpon

text: On December 13, 2006, StumbleUpon launched their StumbleVideo site. The new site allowed users without a toolbar to "stumble" through all the videos that toolbar users had submitted and rate them using an Ajax interface. The site aggregated videos from CollegeHumor, DailyMotion, FunnyOrDie, Google, MetaCafe, MySpace, Vimeo and YouTube.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon launched a version of StumbleVideo for the Internet Channel Web browser that ran on the Wii console on February 12, 2007. This version of StumbleVideo was optimized for the Wii's smaller screen resolution and offered similar functionality to that of the original version.


title: StumbleUpon

text: In April 2007, StumbleUpon launched the StumbleThru service, allowing users of the toolbar to stumble within sites such as YouTube, The Onion, Public Broadcasting Service and Wikipedia. According to the announcement of the feature, StumbleUpon planned on adding additional Web sites in the future.


title: StumbleUpon

text: As of June 13, 2010, sites using StumbleThru included BBC.com, Blogger, Break.com, CNN.com, CollegeHumor, Flickr.com, FunnyorDie.com, Howstuffworks.com, HuffingtonPost.com, Metacafe.com, Pbs.org, PhysOrg, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, The Onion, Wikipedia, Wired.com, WordPress and YouTube.


title: StumbleUpon

text: The StumbleThru service allowed registered users to stumble on specific sites like the ones listed above, rather than the entire Web.


title: StumbleUpon

text: In March 2009, StumbleUpon launched Su.pr, a URL shortening service. It is primarily used to link to Twitter and Facebook statuses and updates. This service is similar to that of bit.ly and TinyURL. From March through May 2009, the su.pr service was only available to people who had received an invite code, but later, it was made available to all StumbleUpon users. In 2013, StumbleUpon discontinued the su.pr service to focus more on their lists feature.


title: StumbleUpon

text: Paid Discovery was StumbleUpon's ad system. With Paid Discovery, an advertiser's URL (website, video, etc.) became part of the Stumble stream.


title: StumbleUpon

text: Up to 5% of all stumbles were reserved for Paid Discovery where the advertisers directly inserted their web page into the user experience. This meant the audience landed directly on their web pages, videos and photos. Users could also provide feedback (thumbs up / thumbs down) on this content.


title: StumbleUpon

text: Since Paid Discovery sent visitors directly to the advertiser's page, there was no need to create an ad; the advertiser's web page was the ad. When an ad was delivered to a user, a green icon or “Sponsored” would appear in the toolbar or mobile app, denoting a paid stumble. StumbleUpon did not serve typical display ad formats, such as pop-ups, interstitials or banners.


title: StumbleUpon

text: Advertisers had different options for how quickly and how many users they could reach with their content, depending on their marketing objectives. Serving priority dictated the order in which their web page was considered for placement, based on available inventory.


title: StumbleUpon

text: According to a 2013 fourth quarter Shareaholic's Social Media Traffic Report, StumbleUpon accounted for more publisher traffic than YouTube, Reddit, Linkedin and Google combined. Over 100,000 publishers, brands and marketers use StumbleUpon's advertising and content distribution platform in order to promote their products and services. By 2014, StumbleUpon was serving over 125 million brand and publisher sponsored placements per month.


title: StumbleUpon

text: StumbleUpon said in April 2008 that it had 5 million users, and by the end of May it would collect its five-billionth "stumble", more than one billion of which would have taken place during 2008. StumbleUpon claimed to have more than 10 million members as of 18 May 2010. In August 2011, StumbleUpon reached the 25 billion stumble mark, at which point they were adding over 1 billion stumbles per month. In April 2012, StumbleUpon announced that it had over 25 million registered users.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Daniel Jacob Henry Woodhead (born January 25, 1985) is an amateur golfer who has qualified for the United States Golf Association championship tournaments, and was a former professional American football running back. He played college football at Chadron State and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He also played for the New England Patriots, San Diego Chargers and Baltimore Ravens.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead set several NCAA college football rushing records, including the single season rushing and all-time rushing records. In 2006 and 2007, he won the Harlon Hill Trophy, awarded to the best player in NCAA Division II, making him the third player to win the trophy twice in its history (the other players are Johnny Bailey and Dusty Bonner). On October 6, 2007, Woodhead became the NCAA all-time, all-division leading rusher. Woodhead held this record until it was broken by Mount Union running back Nate Kmic on December 13, 2008. With the Patriots, Woodhead made his lone Super Bowl appearance in 2011. He finished the game with four catches for 42 yards and a touchdown while rushing seven times for 18 yards, but the Patriots fell to the New York Giants 21-17.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead played football at North Platte High School in North Platte, Nebraska, and broke many records. North Platte reached the state finals in 2001, with Woodhead's help after beating Millard North High School team 24–21. Woodhead blocked a field goal attempt late in the fourth quarter to give North Platte possession with only minutes left. North Platte's Ben Woodhead, Woodhead's older brother, threw a pass down field to set up a game-winning field goal by Jake McCarthy. However, North Platte went on to lose the state championship 28–14 to Millard West High School.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In Woodhead's junior season, his team went 8–1 in the regular season, and won two games in the playoffs before falling to Millard North in the semifinals.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In Woodhead's senior season, North Platte had its first undefeated regular season in 40 years, going 9–0. The team went on to beat Omaha North High School in the first round of the playoffs, Bellevue East in the second round, and finally lost to Millard North 21–7 in the semifinals for the second year in a row. Woodhead finished as Nebraska's Class A leading rusher, as well as Nebraska's Class A all-time leading rusher with 4,891 yards (2000–2003). North Platte High's quarterback that year, Derek Enderle, also finished as the state's leading passer. This marked the first time in North Platte's history that the football team finished with the state's leading passer and rusher in the same season.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In addition to being a star in football, Woodhead was also a four-year letterman that set school or state records in three other sports; in track & field, he broke the school record after sprinting a blistering 10.5 seconds in the 100-meter dash; in basketball, he once scored 47 points in a game; in soccer, he netted 16 goals in a season.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In 2004, Woodhead began attending Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska, where he rushed for 1,840 yards as a true freshman. Woodhead was the first recipient of a full athletic scholarship at Chadron State in its 96-year history.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In 2005, Woodhead carried the ball 278 times for 1,769 yards, averaging 6.4 yards per carry, and 21 touchdowns. He also had 30 receptions for 367 yards, averaging 12.2 yards per reception.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In 2006, through 12 games, Woodhead rushed for 2,740 yards, a new all-division single season rushing record, surpassing Kavin Gaillaird. Including the playoffs, his rushing yards in 2006 totaled 2,756. He also led his team to the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2006, losing to Northwest Missouri State. Northwest Missouri State managed to hold Woodhead to a season low 16 yards rushing on 16 carries while giving up 79 yards receiving, which was more than double anyone on the Northwest Missouri team. Chadron also had 327 yards of total offense compared to Northwest Missouri State's 306.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Through 39 games, Woodhead's 606 points equated to 15.5 points a game, the highest ever in NCAA Division II. Only Dan Pugh of Mount Union College, a Division III school in Alliance, Ohio, with 248 points in 2002 and Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State with 234 in 1988, had ever scored more points in a season than Woodhead scored in 2006. However, in 2007 Abilene Christian University's Bernard Scott broke Woodhead's Division II record by scoring 39 touchdowns (234 points).


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead accumulated 7,441 yards on the ground, for his career, giving him a career average of 190.8 yards per game. He rushed for more than 200 yards in 19 of his 39 appearances and scored in 37 consecutive games, both of which are NCAA all-division records.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: After a 208-yard game against Western New Mexico in 2007, he became college football's all-time leading rusher, breaking the record previously held by R.J. Bowers, who played for Grove City College, a Division III school in Pennsylvania from 1997–2000. Nate Kmic broke the all division record with 8,074 for Mount Union College. Woodhead is also just the sixth NCAA Division II player to rush for more than 1,000 yards in four seasons.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: He has also recorded 9,259 all-purpose yards, which ranks third on the NCAA all-time list. Nate Kmic holds the all-time record with 9,651 yards.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead is also tied with Germaine Race (Pittsburg State 2003–2006) for first place in Division II in career scoring with 654 points on 109 touchdowns. Woodhead is only the second player in collegiate history to score more than 100 touchdowns. Nate Kmic set the new all-time record in 2009, finishing his career with 130 touchdowns for Mount Union College.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Barry Sanders is the only college player to accumulate more all-purpose yards than the 3,159 that Woodhead gained in 2006, as he gained 3,250 as a junior at Oklahoma State University in 1988, when he won the Heisman Trophy. Woodhead ranked 10th in Division-II in career all-purpose yards with 7,349 after his junior season. The Division-II leader is Brian Shay of Emporia State with 9,301 yards, including 1,207 on kickoff returns, 1995–1998.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead was a Harlon Hill Trophy candidate in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, winning the award in both 2006 and 2007.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: When interviewed, Woodhead stated that Nebraska never showed much interest in him and that he wanted to go somewhere where he was wanted. Chadron State showed a lot of interest in him, which is where he ended up. While at Chadron State, he majored in math education.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead did not receive an invite to the NFL Scouting Combine, so he had to use his pro day to show his abilities. According to a report on "NFLDraftWatch.net", he ran the 40-yard dash in times of 4.33 to 4.38 seconds, which would have been the second-fastest among all running backs at the NFL Combine in March 2008. He posted the best pro-agility time of 4.03 seconds, the second-best vertical jump at , and the best 60-yard shuttle time (11.2 seconds). He also bench pressed 20 times.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead went undrafted in the 2008 NFL Draft. However, he received a call from the New York Jets moments before the draft ended, about the two parties coming to an agreement on an undrafted rookie free agent contract. It was announced shortly after, that Woodhead had signed a deal with the organization.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: On July 26, 2008, Woodhead was carted off the field due to an injury. He spent his entire rookie season on injured reserve.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: On September 3, 2009, the Jets faced the Philadelphia Eagles in a preseason matchup. During this game, Woodhead rushed for 158 yards, the NFL's second-highest preseason total since 1992, and two touchdowns. Woodhead initially survived final cuts in September 2009, only to be waived a day later on September 6. He was re-signed to the Jets' practice squad on September 8. In October, Woodhead was moved from running back to wide receiver and on October 17, he was signed to the active roster after Jerricho Cotchery and Brad Smith became injured.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead saw his first regular season action on October 25, 2009. In the 38–0 win over the Oakland Raiders, Woodhead rushed three times for 24 yards. Overall, he finished the 2009 season with 15 carries for 64 rushing yards and eight receptions for 87 receiving yards.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead was signed by the New England Patriots on September 18, 2010, one day before the team's Week 2 matchup against the Jets. The team had an open roster spot for Woodhead after the trade of Laurence Maroney; Woodhead was inactive for the game, which saw longtime Patriots third-down running back Kevin Faulk go down for the season with a knee injury. On September 26, making his Patriots debut as well as his first career start, Woodhead had a 22-yard touchdown run against the Buffalo Bills, his first NFL touchdown. In Week 4, Woodhead added an 11-yard touchdown reception in a win over the Miami Dolphins. Against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 11, Woodhead had a 36-yard touchdown run in a Patriots win.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: On November 19, 2010, Woodhead signed a two-year contract extension with the Patriots, through the 2012 season.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead finished the 2010 season with 3 starts in 14 games played. He had 97 carries for 547 yards (5.6 yard average), and 5 rushing touchdowns. He also caught 34 passes for 379 yards and one receiving touchdown. Woodhead was part of the Patriots postseason roster until the team lost 28–21 to his former team, the New York Jets, in the divisional round.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In the 2011 season, Woodhead had 77 carries for 351 rushing yards and a touchdown to go along with 18 receptions for 157 yards. The Patriots finished with a 13–3 record and won the AFC East. In the Divisional Round against the Denver Broncos, he had four carries for 25 yards in the 45–10 victory. In the AFC Championship, he had six carries for 18 yards and a seven-yard reception in the 23–20 victory over the Baltimore Ravens. On February 5, 2012, he made a catch in the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVI to score the first touchdown in the game for the Patriots. New England would eventually lose the game to the New York Giants 21–17. Woodhead finished with four catches for 42 yards and a touchdown while rushing seven times for 18 yards.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In the 2012 season, Woodhead had 76 carries for 301 yards and four touchdowns to go along with 40 receptions for 446 yards and three touchdowns.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead agreed to terms with the San Diego Chargers on March 15, 2013. He signed a two-year, $3.5 million contract. The deal included a $1 million signing bonus.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: He scored his first touchdown as a Charger in a Week 4 matchup against the Cowboys. The Chargers won the game and Woodhead ended up with two touchdown catches. Sharing time with Ronnie Brown as the team's backup to Ryan Mathews, Woodhead enjoyed a career year. He led all NFL running backs with six touchdown receptions and was second with 76 catches for 605 yards in the regular season. He also had 106 carries for 429 yards, averaging 4.0 yards per attempt, for an overall 1,034 yards and eight touchdowns; he added a dimension missing in San Diego's offense since Darren Sproles departed after 2010. Of all the Chargers free agent acquisitions in 2013, quarterback Philip Rivers said he "was most excited about" Woodhead.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Against the Buffalo Bills in Week 3 of 2014, Woodhead suffered a leg and ankle injury and was carted off the field. His season ended after he was diagnosed with a broken fibula. In limited time in the 2014 season, he had 38 rushing yards and five receptions for 34 yards.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: After recovering from a broken fibula, Woodhead had a strong showing against the Detroit Lions, rushing for 43 yards and scoring two touchdowns. Against the Cleveland Browns, Woodhead had 54 rushing yards that included a 19-yard rush that set up a game-winning field goal by Josh Lambo and also had 84 receiving yards, one of those catches being for 61 yards, the longest of his career. Against the Miami Dolphins, Woodhead scored three touchdowns on six receptions, and another touchdown running the ball for a single-game career-high for touchdowns in a game. He scored 24 total points in the game, which was the most by any player in a single game in the 2015 season. Overall, he finished the 2015 season with 98 carries for 336 rushing yards and three touchdowns to go along with 80 receptions for 755 receiving yards and six touchdowns.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In the 2016 Week 2 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Woodhead suffered a torn ACL and was placed on injured reserve, ending his season.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: On March 9, 2017, Woodhead signed a three-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens. In Week 1, Woodhead suffered a hamstring injury on the Ravens' opening drive and was initially ruled out for 4–6 weeks. On September 14, 2017, Woodhead was placed on injured reserve, causing him to miss at least eight weeks. He was activated off injured reserve to the active roster on November 18, 2017.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: On March 13, 2018, Woodhead was released by the Ravens. Later that week, on March 17, Woodhead announced his retirement after 10 seasons in the league.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: At the end of his NFL career, Woodhead, a scratch golfer in high school who picked it up again in college, and especially while in San Diego, was able to qualify for the 2021 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball tournament at Chambers Bay, a major championship venue.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: In 2022, Woodhead reached the Final Qualifying Round of the U.S. Open. Woodhead missed in the round by being +10.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Later, he qualified for the Nebraska Amateur Championship as medalist (low score in stroke play), and his swing coach noted the goal is a Masters Tournament qualification through winning the U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead grew up in a close knit family and was homeschooled until the ninth grade. Like him, both of his parents attended Chadron State and his father, Mark, played wide receiver for the Chadron State Eagles in the late 1970s.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead and his wife, Stacia, began dating when they were freshmen in high school. Together they have four children: Sis, William, Mae Mae and Hopie.


title: Danny Woodhead

text: Woodhead hosts a weekly podcast with fellow NFL Veteran Matt Slauson. Woodhead and Slauson talk about their NFL careers, life in retirement, tell funny stories, give advice, and much more.


title: Ice cream barge

text: An ice cream barge was a vessel employed by the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of World War II to produce ice cream in large quantities to be provisioned to sailors and Marines. The craft, a concrete barge acquired from the U.S. Army and worth $1 million, was able to create of ice cream every seven minutes, or approximately per shift, and could store . It was employed in the USN's Western Pacific area of operations, at one point anchored at Naval Base Ulithi. These ships were intended to raise the morale of U.S. troops overseas by producing ice cream at a fast rate.


title: Alan Clark

text: Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991.


title: Alan Clark

text: He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work "The Donkeys" (1961), which inspired the musical satire "Oh, What a Lovely War!"


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit, irreverence and keen support of animal rights. Norman Lamont called him "the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times". Clark is particularly remembered for his three-volume "Alan Clark Diaries", which contains a candid account of political life under Thatcher and a moving description of the weeks preceding his death, when he continued to write until he could no longer focus on the page.


title: Alan Clark

text: Alan Clark was born at 55 Lancaster Gate, London, the elder son of art historian Kenneth Clark (later Lord Clark), who was of Scottish parentage, and his wife Elizabeth Winifred Clark ("née" Martin), who was Irish. His sister and brother, fraternal twins Colette (known as Celly) and Colin, were born in 1932. At the age of six he began as a day boy at Egerton House, a preparatory school in Marylebone, and from there at the age of nine went on as a boarder to St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne. Clark was one of the seventy boys rescued when the school building was destroyed by fire in May 1939. He was relocated with the school to Midhurst.


title: Alan Clark

text: In September 1940, with the Luftwaffe threatening south-east England, the Clarks moved their son to a safer location at Cheltenham College Junior School. From there he went to Eton in January 1942. In February 1946 while at Eton he joined the Territorial training regiment of the Household Cavalry based at Windsor, but was discharged in August when he had left Eton. He then went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Modern History under Hugh Trevor-Roper, obtaining a third-class honours degree. After Oxford he wrote articles for the motoring press before he went on to read for the bar. He was called to the bar in 1955 but did not practise law. Instead, he began privately studying military history with a view to professional writing on the topic.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark's first book, "The Donkeys" (1961), was a revisionist history of the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) campaigns at the beginning of the First World War. The book covers Western Front operations during 1915, including the offensives at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Loos, and ending with the enforced resignation of Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF, and his replacement by Douglas Haig. Clark describes the battle scenes, and criticises the actions of several of the generals involved in the heavy loss of life that occurred. Much of the book is based on the political manoeuvres behind the scenes as commanders jostled for influence, and Sir John French's difficulties dealing with his French allies and with Lord Kitchener. Haig's own diaries are used to demonstrate how Haig positioned himself to take over command. The publication sold well, and is still in print 50 years after its first print run, being regarded as an important work on the British experience of the World War.


title: Alan Clark

text: The book's title was drawn from the expression "Lions led by donkeys" which has been widely used to compare British soldiers with their commanders. In 1921 Princess Evelyn Blücher published her memoirs, which attributed the phrase to OHL (the German GHQ) in 1918. Clark was unable to find the origin of the expression. He prefaced the book with a supposed dialogue between two generals and attributed the dialogue to the memoirs of German general Erich von Falkenhayn. Clark was equivocal about the source for the dialogue for many years, but in 2007, his friend Euan Graham recalled a conversation in the mid-1960s when Clark, on being challenged as to the dialogue's provenance, looked sheepish and said, "Well I invented it." This supposed invention emboldened critics of "The Donkeys" to condemn the work.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark's choice of subject was strongly influenced by Lord Lee of Fareham, a family friend who had never forgotten what he saw as the shambles of the BEF. In developing his work, Clark became close friends with historian Basil Liddell Hart, who acted as his mentor. Liddell Hart read the drafts and was concerned by Clark's "intermittent carelessness". He produced several lists of corrections, which were incorporated, and wrote "It is a fine piece of writing, and often brilliantly penetrating."


title: Alan Clark

text: Even before publication, Clark's work came under attack from supporters of Haig, including the Field Marshal's son and historians John Terraine, Robert Blake and Hugh Trevor-Roper, former tutor to Clark, who was married to Haig's daughter. On publication, "The Donkeys" received very supportive comments from Lord Beaverbrook, who recommended the work to Winston Churchill, and "The Times" printed a positive review. However, John Terraine and A. J. P. Taylor wrote damning reviews and historian Michael Howard wrote "As history, it is worthless", criticising its "slovenly scholarship". Howard nonetheless commended its readability and noted that descriptions of battles and battlefields are "sometimes masterly". Field Marshal Montgomery later told Clark it was "A Dreadful Tale: You have done a good job in exposing the total failure of the generalship".


title: Alan Clark

text: In more recent years, the work has been criticised by some historians for being one-sided in its treatment of World War One generals. Brian Bond, in editing a 1991 collection of essays on First World War history, expressed the collective desire of the authors to move beyond "popular stereotypes of "The Donkeys"" while also acknowledging that serious leadership mistakes were made and that the authors would do little to rehabilitate the reputations of, for instance, the senior commanders on The Somme.


title: Alan Clark

text: The historian Peter Simkins complained that it was frustratingly difficult to counter Clark's prevailing view. Professor Richard Holmes made a similar complaint, writing that "Alan Clark's "The Donkeys", for all its verve and amusing narrative, added a streak of pure deception to the writings of the First World War. Its title is based on 'Lions led by Donkeys'. Sadly for historical accuracy, there is no evidence whatever for this; none. Not a jot or scintilla. The real problem is that such histories have sold well and continue to do so. They reinforce historical myth by delivering to the reader exactly what they expect to read". Clark's work was described as "contemptible" by Henry Paget, the Marquess of Anglesey who regarded Clark as the most arrogant and least respectable writer on the War, but the impartiality of this view may have been overshadowed by the fact that Anglesey's own history of the British Cavalry had been reviewed by Clark with the comments "cavalry are nearly always a disaster, a waste of space and resources." Graham Stewart, Clark's researcher for a later political history that he would write entitled "The Tories", noted: "Alan wasn't beyond quoting people selectively to make them look bad".


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark went on to publish several more works of military history through the 1960s, including "Barbarossa" in 1965 examining the Operation Barbarossa offensive of the Second World War; he also tried his hand at novel writing, but none of the subsequent books were as commercially successful or drew the same attention as "The Donkeys" had achieved, and he abandoned the path of military history in the mid-1970s to pursue a professional career in national politics.


title: Alan Clark

text: Completely opposed to the Common Market, Clark joined the Conservative Monday Club in 1968 and was soon Chairman of its Wiltshire branch. In 1971 he was blacklisted by Conservative Party Central Office for being too right-wing, but after representations by him, and others, he was removed from the blacklist.


title: Alan Clark

text: He unsuccessfully sought the Conservative selection for Weston super-Mare in 1970, missing out to Jerry Wiggin. He subsequently became MP for Plymouth Sutton at the February 1974 general election with a majority of 8,104, when Harold Wilson took over from Edward Heath as prime minister of a minority Labour government. At the General Election in October 1974, when Labour gained a small overall majority, Clark's vote fell by 1,192 votes, but he still had a comfortable majority with 5,188. His first five years in parliament were spent on the Conservative opposition benches. He was still a member of the Monday Club in May 1975. It is unclear when he let his membership of the club lapse, but possibly it was upon becoming a government minister. He continued to address Club events until 1992.


title: Alan Clark

text: During the subsequent Party leadership contest he was urged by Airey Neave to vote for Margaret Thatcher, but he is thought to have favoured Willie Whitelaw. The following year came the free vote on the Common Market and Clark, praising Enoch Powell's speech, voted against. The next day he told the socialist MP Dennis Skinner that "I'd rather live in a socialist Britain than one ruled by a lot of foreigners." Although he was personally liked by Margaret Thatcher, for whom he had great admiration, and the columnist George Hutchinson, writing in "The Times" tipped him for inclusion in the Shadow Cabinet, he was never promoted to the cabinet, remaining in mid-ranking ministerial positions during the 1980s.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark received his first ministerial posting as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Employment in 1983, where he was responsible for moving the approval of regulations relating to equal pay in the House of Commons. His speech in 1983 followed a wine-tasting dinner with his friend of many years standing, Christopher Selmes. Irritated by what he regarded as a bureaucratically written civil-service speech, he galloped through the script, skipping over pages of text. The then-opposition MP Clare Short stood up on a point of order and, after acknowledging that MPs cannot formally accuse each other of being drunk in the House of Commons, accused him of being "incapable", a euphemism for drunk. Although the Government benches were furious at the accusation, Clark later admitted in his diaries that the wine-tasting had affected him. To date, he is the only Member of Parliament to have been accused in the House of Commons of being drunk at the despatch box.


title: Alan Clark

text: In 1986, Clark was promoted to Minister for Trade at the Department of Trade and Industry. It was during this time that he became involved with the issue of export licences to Iraq, the Matrix-Churchill affair. In 1989, he became Minister for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark left Parliament in 1992 following Margaret Thatcher's fall from power. His admission during the Matrix Churchill trial that he had been "economical with the "actualité" " in answer to parliamentary questions about what he knew with regard to arms export licences to Iraq, caused the collapse of the trial and the establishment of the Scott Inquiry, which helped undermine John Major's government.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark became bored with life outside politics and returned to Parliament as member for Kensington and Chelsea in the election of 1997, becoming critical of NATO's campaign in the Balkans.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark held strong views on British unionism, racial difference, social class, and was in support of animal rights, nationalist protectionism and Euroscepticism. He referred to Enoch Powell as "The Prophet". Clark once declared: "It is natural to be proud of your race and your country", and in a departmental meeting, allegedly referred to Africa as "Bongo Bongo Land". When called to account, however, Clark denied the comment had any racist overtones, claiming it had simply been a reference to the President of Gabon, Omar Bongo.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark argued that the media and the government failed to pick out the racism towards white people and ignored any racist attacks on white people. He also, however, described the National Front chairman, John Tyndall, as "a bit of a blockhead" and disavowed his ideas.


title: Alan Clark

text: When Clark was Minister for Trade, responsible for overseeing arms sales to foreign governments, he was interviewed by journalist John Pilger who asked him:


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark was a passionate supporter of animal rights, joining activists in demonstrations at Dover against live export, and outside the House of Commons in support of Animal Liberation Front hunger-striker Barry Horne.


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark published the first volume of his political and personal diaries in 1993, which caused a minor embarrassment at the time with their descriptions of senior Conservative politicians such as Michael Heseltine, Douglas Hurd, and Kenneth Clarke. He quoted Michael Jopling—referring to Heseltine, deputy PM at the time—as saying "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture" and judged it "Snobby, but cutting". His account of Thatcher's downfall in 1990 has been described as the most vivid in existence. Two subsequent volumes of his diaries cover the earlier and later parts of Clark's parliamentary career. The diaries reveal recurring worries about Japanese militarism but his real views are often not clear because he enjoyed making "tongue in cheek" remarks to the discomfiture of those he believed to be fools, as in his sympathy for a British version of National Socialism.


title: Alan Clark

text: In 1958, Clark, aged 30, married 16-year-old (Caroline) Jane, daughter of Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler OBE of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and a descendant on her mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield. They were married for 41 years and had two sons:


title: Alan Clark

text: His elder son James (who lived in Eriboll, a Scottish estate) died of a brain tumour on 15 August 2019, aged 59.


title: Alan Clark

text: While involved in the Matrix Churchill trial he was cited in a divorce case in South Africa, in which it was revealed he had had affairs with Valerie Harkess, the wife of a South African barrister, and her daughters, Josephine and Alison. After sensationalist tabloid headlines, Clark's wife Jane remarked upon what Clark had called "the coven" with the line: "Well, what do you expect when you sleep with below-stairs types?" She referred to her husband as an "S, H, one, T".


title: Alan Clark

text: Clark died at Saltwood Castle on 5 September 1999, aged 71, after suffering a brain tumour. His body was buried in the grounds of the castle. Upon his death, his family said Clark wanted it to be stated that he had "gone to join Tom and the other dogs."


title: Alan Clark

text: In 1993 Clark gave a half-hour "Opinions" lecture, televised by Channel 4, of which he said in his diary: "It was good. Clear, assured, moving. I looked compos and in my 'prime'. Many people saw it. All were enthusiastic. Today acres of coverage in "The Times"." In 1997 Clark presented a four-part series for the BBC entitled "Alan Clark's History of the Tory Party".


title: Alan Clark

text: In 2004, John Hurt portrayed Clark (and Jenny Agutter his wife Jane) in the BBC's "The Alan Clark Diaries", reigniting some of the controversies surrounding their original publication and once again brought his name into the British press and media. An authorised biography of Alan Clark by Ion Trewin, the editor of his diaries, was published in September 2009.


title: Pulgasari

text: Pulgasari () is a 1985 North Korean dark fantasy-action kaiju film directed by Shin Sang-ok and Chong Gon Jo. It stars Chang Son Hui and Pak Sung Ho and features special effects by Duk Ho Kim, supervised by Teruyoshi Nakano. The film centers around the legend of the Bulgasari and is based on the lost 1962 film from South Korea of the same name.


title: Pulgasari

text: Director Shin had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung and was coerced into making several films as a director, with "Pulgasari" being his final before he and his wife, actress Choi Eun-hee, escaped to the United States.


title: Pulgasari

text: In feudal Korea, during the Goryeo Dynasty, a king controls the land with an iron fist, subjecting the peasantry to misery and starvation. An old blacksmith who was sent to prison for defending his people creates a tiny figurine of a monster by making a doll of rice and before dying asks the gods of earth and sky to make his creation a living creature that protects the rebels and the oppressed. When the figurine comes into contact with the blood of the blacksmith's daughter, the creature springs to life, becoming a giant metal-eating monster whom the blacksmith's daughter names Pulgasari, which is the name of the mythical monster her father used to mention as an eater of iron and steel. Pulgasari now shares a special bond with the blacksmith's daughter, and after he starts eating some of the farmer's tools, becomes a giant and powerful figure.


title: Pulgasari

text: After much suffering, the peasants form an army, storm the palace of the region's Governor and kill him. Soon after the evil king becomes aware that there is a rebellion being planned in the country and he intends to crush it, but he runs into Pulgasari, who fights with the peasant army to overthrow the corrupt monarchy. Pulgasari wins many battles because of his unending hunger for all kind of metal, readily provided by its enemies. Nevertheless, after capturing and executing the leader of the rebellion (who was also the future husband of the blacksmith's daughter), the king's army threatens to kill the blacksmith's daughter if Pulgasari does not surrender. Pulgasari lets itself be trapped to save the woman, and the royal army apparently kills the creature by burying it under the ground. After escaping, the blacksmith's daughter revives Pulgasari by again pouring some of her blood on the burial site. Pulgasari grows strong once more and attacks the king's palace, destroying it and simultaneously killing the king.


title: Pulgasari

text: After the defeat of the king, Pulgasari becomes a new problem, since he starts eating the rebel's weapons and farmer's tools, which are given to the creature without objection, since the peasants still believe Pulgasari is a benign savior. The blacksmith's daughter realizes that Pulgasari's hunger will never stop, and that he is inadvertently oppressing the people he fought for. She decides to sacrifice herself by hiding inside a big bell that Pulgasari finds and quickly eats. Pulgasari yells in anguish as the blacksmith's daughter's presence in its system causes it to turn to stone and crumble into pieces, tragically killing both of them, but saving the people once and for all.


title: Pulgasari

text: The film is based around a legendary creature called the "Pulgasari" (or "Bulgasari"). The original story was set in the city of Songdo (now Kaesong, North Korea).


title: Pulgasari

text: The film was a loose remake of a lost 1962 film directed by Kim Myeong-je, which is believed to be the first Korean kaiju film, predating "Yongary, Monster from the Deep" and "Space Monster, Wangmagwi" by five years. Kim Jong-il was a lifelong admirer of the director, as well as "Godzilla" and other kaiju films. He kidnapped the former director Shin Sang-ok and his wife, famous actress Choi Eun-hee, with the specific purpose of making fantasy/propaganda films for the North Korean government. Kim also produced "Pulgasari" (through Korean Film Studio) and all the films that Shin made before he and Choi managed to escape from their minders while on a festival tour in Austria. Specifically, the film was inspired by "The Return of Godzilla". The staff from Japan's Toho Studios, the creators of "Godzilla", participated in creating the film's special effects. They were tricked into coming as they thought they were filming in China.


title: Pulgasari

text: Jonathan Ross stated that the film was intended by the North Korean government to be a propaganda metaphor for the effects of unchecked capitalism and the power of the collective.


title: Pulgasari

text: Kenpachiro Satsuma was quoted as saying he preferred "Pulgasari" to TriStar's "Godzilla". There has been some speculation that the director Shin Sang-ok included a hidden message of his own in the film; the monster of the movie was to be interpreted as both a metaphor for Kim Il-sung betraying a people's revolution for his own purposes and as a plea to the North Korean people to rise up against the Kim regime, represented by Pulgasari demanding his subjects fed him more and more iron farming equipment even after the former regime has been defeated, leading to the workers turning against and ultimately defeating their former savior.


title: Pulgasari

text: After finding out that his credit was removed from the movie, Shin Sang-ok wrote a remake called "The Adventures of Galgameth" in 1996. "Pulgasari" became the first North Korean film to be released in South Korean theaters in 2000. Ten years later in 2006, "Pulgasari" made its New York debut at the end of Columbia University Japanese culture center's year-long "Godzilla festival."


title: Pulgasari

text: "Pulgasari" has gained some popularity over the years because of the shocking story of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee's kidnapping at the hands of North Korea's government. During their strange captivity in the country, Shin and Choi were, respectively, director and leading actress in a number of North Korean films produced by Kim Jong-il. The director and leading actress made together a total of seven films, for which the couple – who were separated before their kidnapping – was simultaneously commissioned and forced to do by North Korea's government. "Pulgasari" was made in 1985, the same year that Shin's North Korean films "Salt" and "The Tale of Shim Chong" were released. It was the last film directed by Shin before he and Choi escaped to the United States.


title: American Bobtail

text: The American Bobtail is an uncommon breed of domestic cat which was developed in the late 1960s. It is most notable for its stubby "bobbed" tail about one-third to one-half the length of a normal cat's tail. This is the result of a cat body type genetic mutation affecting the tail development, similar to that of a Manx cat. The breed is not related to the Japanese Bobtail despite the similar name and physical type—the breeding programs are entirely unrelated, and the genetic mutation causing the bobbed tail are known to be different because the mutation causing the American Bobtail's tail is dominant, whereas the Japanese Bobtail tail mutation is recessive.


title: American Bobtail

text: American Bobtails are a very sturdy breed, with both short- and long-haired coats. Their coat is shaggy rather than dense or fluffy. They can have any color of eyes and coat, with a strong emphasis on the "wild" tabby appearance in show animals.


title: American Bobtail

text: Urban legend says that Bobtails are the result of a cross breeding between a domestic tabby cat and a wild bobcat. The unusual tail is actually the result of a random spontaneous genetic mutation within the domestic cat population, and may be related to the Manx gene, which is also dominant. Yodie, a short-tailed brown tabby male, was mated with a seal-point Siamese female to create the American Bobtail's original bloodline. Most of the early bloodlines have died out.


title: American Bobtail

text: This cat's original appearance genetics were modified in the breed to form a new and improved strain which comes in essentially all colors and coat types. The breed was first recognized by The International Cat Association (TICA, US-based), in 1989. The breed has been accepted for championship competition by TICA, the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA, also US-based) and the American Cat Fanciers Association (ACFA). The breed is technically also sanctioned in the Cat Aficionado Association (CAA) of China, by virtue of the CAA having adopted all of ACFA's breed standards; it is unknown if any specimens are actually in China. The breed is "recognized" (as existing), as both American Bobtail Longhair and American Bobtail Shorthair, in the Germany-based World Cat Federation (WCF), but is not "accepted" for competition and has no WCF breed standard.


title: American Bobtail

text: The American Bobtail is hearty, short-tailed cat. Its body is moderately long, with substantial boning, and stocky. The stance is noticeably rectangular. The torso is full and broad. The hips are substantial, almost as wide as chest, and hind legs longer than fore legs with large round feet which may have toe tufts. The head is a broad wedge without flat planes, size proportionate to body. There is a concave curve from nose to brow, or rise to prominent brow, a broad unpinched muzzle, prominent whisker pads, a gently sloped wide nose and full, strong jaws. The ears are medium-sized, wide-based, and equally mounted on top and the side of head with rounded tips. The eyes are almost almond shape, with size proportionate to head. The aperture is angled to base of ear, and with medium wide spacing and deep sockets. Eye color varies with coat color. The end of the tail is visible above the back, but not beyond the hock while the animal is in repose. The tail is straight or curved, slightly knotted or may have bumps.


title: American Bobtail

text: American Bobtails are playful, social and moderately energetic. They reportedly have enough clever ingenuity to escape from rooms with closed doors and from secured cages. Being social with their owners and caretakers, they will ask for the attention they want by meowing or just by hopping into laps. American Bobtails are moderately energetic and love travelling. Thanks to their highly adaptable nature, they easily adapt to new environments and thus are very good companions for travelers.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claude Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many designs for both the civil and military markets.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: Originally Dornier Metallbau, Dornier Flugzeugwerke took over Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen production facilities (Weingarten, Warnemünde, and the former Zeppelin shed at Manzell) when it failed in 1923.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: Dornier was well known between the two world wars as a manufacturer of large, all-metal flying boats and of land based airliners. The record-breaking 1924 Wal () was used on many long distance flights and the Do X set records for its immense size and weight. Dornier's successful landplane airliners, including the Komet ("Comet") and Merkur ("Mercury"), were used by Lufthansa and other European carriers during the 1920s and early 30s. Dornier built its aircraft outside Germany during much of this period due to the restrictions placed on German aircraft manufacturers by the Treaty of Versailles: locations included Altenrhein, Switzerland, 12 km from Zeppelin's Lindau (Bodensee) location. Foreign factories licence-building Dornier products included CMASA and Piaggio in Italy, CASA in Spain, Kawasaki in Japan, and Aviolanda in the Netherlands. Once the Nazi government came to power and abandoned the treaty's restrictions, Dornier resumed production in Germany.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: The success of the Wal family encouraged the development of derivatives, and of more advanced successors, such as the Do 18, and Do 24 which saw service in several armed forces, including German, into World War II.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: Dornier's most important World War II military aircraft design was the Do 17, nicknamed "The Flying Pencil". It first flew in 1934 as a mailplane for Lufthansa but due to its narrow fuselage (hence its nickname) it was not commercially viable and was passed over. Dornier then developed it further as a military aircraft, with a prototype bomber flying in 1935, and in 1937 it was used in by the German Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War. Production continued in Germany and it was developed to fill multiple roles for the Luftwaffe. As a medium bomber it saw service during the early part of World War II, particularly during the Battle of Britain. It was later developed into a nightfighter to counter the RAF bomber offensive. Dornier developed the similar looking Do 217 from the Do 17 but it was a larger and completely new design. Dornier also developed the fastest piston-engined fighter of the war, the twin-engined Do 335, which was too late to see service.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: After WWII, aircraft production was again forbidden in Germany, and Dornier relocated to Spain and then to Switzerland where the firm provided aeronautical consultancy services until returning to Germany in 1954. Post-war, Dornier re-established itself with successful STOL Do 27 and Do 28 utility planes. In 1974 it joined a joint venture with French aircraft manufacturers Dassault-Breguet to develop the Alpha Jet.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: In 1983, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) acquired a production licence for the Dornier 228 and manufactured the aircraft for the Asian market. By 2013 a total of 117 Dornier 228 aircraft had been produced by HAL with plans to build 20 more during 2013-14.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: In 1985, Dornier became a member of the Daimler-Benz group, integrating its aeronautic assets with the parent company. As part of this transaction, Lindauer Dornier GmbH was spun off, creating a separate, family-owned firm, concentrating on textile machinery design and manufacturing. The rest of the company was split into several subsidiaries for defence, satellites, medtech and aircraft.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: In 1996, the majority of Dornier Aircraft was acquired by Fairchild Aircraft, forming Fairchild Dornier. This company became insolvent in early 2002. Production of its 328 Jet was acquired by US company Avcraft. Asian groups continued to show interest in its 728 version in August 2004, but production was not restarted. Dornier 228 production was taken over by Swiss manufacturer RUAG, who then sold it off to General Atomics in 2020. Other subsidiaries became part of the EADS.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: The medtech division was sold to an investment company and now bears the name Dornier MedTech. Dornier Medtech manufactures medical equipment, such as the "Dornier S lithotriptor", HM3, Compact Delta to treat kidney stones. Dornier MedTech also manufactures laser devices for a wide range of applications.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: The Dornier family have a spin-off company and project, the Dornier Seastar. It is a turboprop-powered amphibious aircraft built largely of composite materials. This was developed by , and later by his son Cornado by Dornier Seawings.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: Additional unbuilt projects include 3 different Schneider Trophy racers from 1924, 1928 and 1931 and a large multi-engine seaplane similar to the Do X with engines buried in the wings.


title: Dornier Flugzeugwerke

text: Dornier GmbH built the Faint Object Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was used from 1990 to 2002. The ESA funded the unit, which actually consists of two complete and independent camera systems designed to provide extremely high resolution, exceeding 0.05 arcseconds. It is designed to view very faint UV light from 115 to 650 nanometers in wavelength. It was the last original instrument on the Hubble when it was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2002.


title: Astrocytoma

text: Astrocytomas are a type of brain tumor. They originate in a particular kind of glial cells, star-shaped brain cells in the cerebrum called astrocytes. This type of tumor does not usually spread outside the brain and spinal cord and it does not usually affect other organs. Astrocytomas are the most common glioma and can occur in most parts of the brain and occasionally in the spinal cord.


title: Astrocytoma

text: People can develop astrocytomas at any age. The low-grade type is more often found in children or young adults, while the high-grade type is more prevalent in adults. Astrocytomas in the base of the brain are more common in young people and account for roughly 75% of neuroepithelial tumors.


title: Astrocytoma

text: Astrocytoma causes regional effects by compression, invasion, and destruction of brain parenchyma, arterial and venous hypoxia, competition for nutrients, release of metabolic end products (e.g., free radicals, altered electrolytes, neurotransmitters), and release and recruitment of cellular mediators (e.g., cytokines) that disrupt normal parenchymal function. Secondary clinical sequelae may be caused by elevated intracranial pressure attributable to direct mass effect, increased blood volume, or increased cerebrospinal fluid volume.


title: Astrocytoma

text: A genome-wide pattern of DNA copy-number alterations (CNAs) has been uncovered, which is correlated with a patient's survival and response to treatment. This pattern identifies among glioblastoma as well as lower-grade astrocytoma patients a subtype, where the CNA genotype is correlated with an approximately one-year survival phenotype.


title: Astrocytoma

text: An X-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is necessary to characterize the extent of these tumors (size, location, consistency). CT will usually show distortion of third and lateral ventricles with displacement of anterior and middle cerebral arteries. Histologic analysis is necessary for grading diagnosis.


title: Astrocytoma

text: In the first stage of diagnosis the doctor will take a history of symptoms and perform a basic neurological exam, including an eye exam and tests of vision, balance, coordination, and mental status. The doctor will then require a CT scan and MRI of the patient's brain. During a CT scan, X-rays of the patient's brain are taken from many different directions. These are then combined by a computer, producing a cross-sectional image of the brain. For an MRI, the patient relaxes in a tunnel-like instrument while the brain is subjected to changes of magnetic field. An image is produced based on the behavior of the brain's water molecules in response to the magnetic fields. A special dye may be injected into a vein before these scans to provide contrast and make tumors easier to identify.


title: Astrocytoma

text: If a tumor is found, a neurosurgeon must perform a biopsy on it. This simply involves the removal of a small amount of tumor tissue, which is then sent to a neuropathologist for examination and grading. The biopsy may take place before surgical removal of the tumor or the sample may be taken during surgery. Grading of the tumor sample is a method of classification that helps the doctor to determine the severity of the astrocytoma and to decide on the best treatment options. The neuropathologist grades the tumor by looking for atypical cells, the growth of new blood vessels, and for indicators of cell division called mitotic figures.


title: Astrocytoma

text: Of numerous grading systems in use for the classification of tumor of the central nervous system, the World Health Organization (WHO) grading system is commonly used for astrocytoma. Established in 1993 in an effort to eliminate confusion regarding diagnoses, the WHO system established a four-tiered histologic grading guideline for astrocytomas that assigns a grade from 1 to 4, with 1 being the least aggressive and 4 being the most aggressive.


title: Astrocytoma

text: The WHO grading scheme is based on the appearance of certain characteristics: atypia, mitosis, endothelial proliferation, and necrosis. These features reflect the malignant potential of the tumor in terms of invasion and growth rate.


title: Astrocytoma

text: According to the WHO data, the lowest grade astrocytomas (grade I) make up only 2% of recorded astrocytomas, grade II 8%, and the higher grade anaplastic astrocytomas (grade III) 20%. The highest graded astrocytoma (grade IV GBM) is the most common primary nervous system cancer and second most frequent brain tumor after brain metastasis. Despite the low incidence of astrocytomas compared to other human cancers, mortality is significant, as the higher grades (III & IV) present high mortality rates (mainly due to late detection of the neoplasm).


title: Astrocytoma

text: For low-grade astrocytomas, removal of the tumor generally allows functional survival for many years. In some reports, the 5-year survival has been over 90% with well-resected tumors. Indeed, broad intervention of low-grade conditions is a contested matter. In particular, pilocytic astrocytomas are commonly indolent bodies that may permit normal neurologic function. However, left unattended, these tumors may eventually undergo neoplastic transformation. To date, complete resection of high-grade astrocytomas is impossible because of the diffuse infiltration of tumor cells into normal parenchyma. Thus, high-grade astrocytomas inevitably recur after initial surgery or therapy and are usually treated similarly to the initial tumor. Despite decades of therapeutic research, curative intervention is still nonexistent for high-grade astrocytomas; patient care ultimately focuses on palliative management.


title: Astrocytoma

text: In March 1990, United States Republican Party political right wing strategist Lee Atwater was diagnosed with astrocytoma after a tumor was found in his right parietal lobe. After undergoing radiation therapy (including the then-new implant radiation treatment), Atwater died the following year at the age of 40.